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Article: Dysentery Strikes Rwandans as Cholera Deaths Ebb
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- The Washington Post
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- July 31, 1994
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The cholera epidemic that has ravaged the Rwandan refugee
population and produced piles of rotting corpses along roads in
Zaire has finally shown signs of ebbing, but relief workers here are
bracing for the possible onslaught of another disease that could
claim even more lives - dysentery.
Ray Wilkinson, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees, estimated the daily number of deaths at 1,000 to 1,200,
down from an estimated 1,800 to 2,000 just four days ago.
"We estimate the number of cases will continue to rise, but the
important thing is the number of deaths is decreasing," Wilkinson
said.
Relief workers expressed concern, however, about the threat
from bacterial ...