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After Katrina, cholera. On August 31, 2005--two days after the hurricane made landfall--the Bush Administration's Health and Human Services Secretary warned, "We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid, and dehydrating diseases that could come as a result of the stagnant water and other conditions." Around the world, newspapers and other media evoked the spectre of cholera in the United States, the world's hygienic superpower. A newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, reported that New Orleans was a cesspool of "enough cholera germs to ...
- Mayor of New Orleans warns of death toll.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (NY, NY) August 31, 2005 700+ words
...The only bright spot for New Orleans, which was ordered evacuated...leaves the residents of New Orleans vulnerable to deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid," said Health...Leavitt. Though most of New Orleans' 485,000 evacuated ahead...
- New Orleans marches to a different beat. (city's funeral traditions and...
- Magazine article from: American Visions Bloom, Gary W. October 1, 1998 700+ words
...resulted in a uniquely New Orleans burial custom, that...but steady sinking.) New Orleans in the 19th century presented...war, yellow fever cholera -- which resulted in...remained a vital part of New Orleans' black community...
- The Irish Mardi Gras: St. Patrick's Day N'Awlins style.(St. Patrick's day...
- Magazine article from: World of Hibernia Daugherty, Christi March 22, 1997 700+ words
...pulled into the port of New Orleans, the passengers must...of the Irish was the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company...on the western edge of New Orleans. The Irish signed on...yellow fever, and cholera. Still, for 50 cents...
- Disease stalks New Orleans; Four die as Katrina's water turns deadly.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 8, 2005 700+ words
...floodwaters. Police and soldiers in New Orleans used the warnings to try to...vulnificus with highly infectious cholera. "It's not cholera. It's not spread person...bodies from the streets of New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain will...
- New Orleans ravaged.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) August 31, 2005 700+ words
...percent of metropolitan New Orleans was under water that...coursing throughout downtown New Orleans. A local TV station...celebrated route that takes New Orleans streetcars past historic...dysentery, tetanus, cholera and even snake bites...
- Katrina leaves more than 80 percent of New Orleans under water.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Witt, Howard August 30, 2005 700+ words
...percent of metropolitan New Orleans was under water that...coursing throughout downtown New Orleans. A local TV station...celebrated route that takes New Orleans streetcars past historic...dysentery, tetanus, cholera and even snake bites...
- Jewels of Southern Catholicism: New Orleans archive documents a vibrant faith...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Halter, Deborah October 25, 2002 700+ words
...Day on March 19, the New Orleans Times Picayune announces...Italian population in New Orleans itself, nothing about...Rosalie gazes upon a cholera-plagued crowd and encourages...Sicilian emigrants reached New Orleans, the spirit of St...
- Big-Time Gambling is New Orleans' Latest Big Gesture
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered June 3, 1994 700+ words
...always some gambling in New Orleans, quasi-legal in the...of ancient oaks. In New Orleans, life itself was a gamble...scale is the phenomenon. New Orleans has never seen money...had yellow fever and cholera epidemics, six changes...
