Word: diphtheria
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...lost every year in the developing world. Egyptian government health policies have focused, since 1990, on ensuring that children receive their basic immunizations during their first five years of life. The Ministry of Health and Population reports that 97% of infants today are vaccinated against tuberculosis, pertussis, polio, measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Polio, once considered endemic in Egypt, is now largely absent. And campaigns against diarrhea-related diseases have been very effective, using television to reach the most remote rural areas with simple advice on combating diarrhea and dehydration. "This national campaign targeting specific causes of infant mortality was highly...
...DIPHTHERIA and other common diseases: $1.5 billion for vaccinations to save up to 12 million lives...
This is an odd book. Much of it consists of gorgeous, very precise descriptions of the hideous misfortunes that befall the people who surround Ella and Franco. They suffer diphtheria, syphilis, scalding, torture, drowning, stabbing, smallpox, gunfire and, in a couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little...
...million a year. The resulting windfall was used to hire hundreds of teachers and build new schools and health facilities. Enrollment in the nation's primary schools jumped from 5.3 million in 1997 to 7.6 million last year. Immunization rates for tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria jumped from 49% in 1998 to 83% this year, and the HIV infection rate was halved over the same period. "We've turned around a lot of things here," says Francis Omaswa, director general of Uganda's Health Services...
...painting that announced a powerful ambition: to synthesize flickering Impressionist-derived technique with stable, classical form. Two years later, he unveiled La Grande Jatte, a canvas that we now realize brought whole new departments of feeling and form into view. Five years after that, he was dead from diphtheria. But within that short life he was able to formulate a style, both utterly modern and serenely classical, that opened the way to everything from post-Impressionism and Symbolism to 20th century geometric abstraction...