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The only thing Dhaka doesn't lack is people. With 13 million residents and counting, it is a fast-growing megacity in the world's most densely populated large country. New arrivals squeeze into already overflowing slums, or squat on wasteland with zero infrastructure. "Wherever there is human misery you will find cholera," says Dr. Mark Pietroni, Medical Director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, which is implementing the vaccine project with the Bangladesh government. "It thrives on malnutrition, overcrowding and poor hygiene."
Thousands of people are being treated for diarrhoea across Bangladesh as high temperatures mean people are drinking more water which is often unclean …
Urgent action is needed to reduce the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, the World Health Organization has said …
When I spoke to her from the deck of the small motor launch we had hired for a trip up the Jamuna River, Panu Begum was sitting on the roof her house …
Most of the tiny patients confined to the children's ward at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are weak, malnourished and dehydrated …
Scientists have developed a greater understanding of how cholera outbreaks spread. Fears remain that the disease, which causes severe diarrhoea and can prove fatal if not treated …
A report from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The centre carries out pioneering clinic work which aims to ease the symptoms of diseases which cause diarrhoea …
Roushan Ara will go unnoted in the formal annals of public health, but let history record that she did her part …
Adding zinc to the diet during pregnancy could dramatically cut the health problems faced by low weight babies …
The government official reels off precise but incomprehensible statistics: "Homeless 23,458,713. Dead people 1,040 …
The man staggered as he walked in and would have collapsed on the floor had a friend not been holding him up. Soon he was stretched out on a cot in a long, spotless …
That is why doctors at the Pakistan?SEATO Cholera Re search Laboratory in Dacca, Pakistan, began to develop in 1962 an oral therapy to re place the intravenous one then available. This laboratory is supported in part by United States Government funds. The researchers found that the body could absorb the necessary electrolytes—sodium and chloride—when a sugar dextrose—was added to the salt solution. In the current issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. Richard A. Cash, Dr. David R. Nalin, Dr. Roger Rochat, Dr. L. Barth Reller, Dr. Zahedul A. Hague and Dr. A. S. M. Mizanur Rahman have reported that when oral fluids are used to supplement the intravenous therapy, cholera patients need 70 per cent less intravenous fluid than a similar group treat ed in a previous epidemic.
