General News, 3rd prize
Gustavo Gilabert
JB Pictures
JB Pictures
01 March, 1991
Women clutch bottles of drinking water. The exact scale of the epidemic was hard to gauge, but a quarter of a million South Americans were estimated to be affected by cholera in 1991. The disease, with symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting and eventually total dehydration, spread like wildfire among people too poor to observe some basic hygiene. Thousands died in places where running water and soap are unattainable luxuries.
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