A Sugar and Salt Solution for Haiti's Cholera Epidemic
Nov 08, 2010
The New York Times, November 2010
Josh Ruxin, director of Rwanda Works and Columbia University public health expert, makes the case for widespread use of oral rehydration solution, a cheap "medical miracle" that can save the lives of even the most severely dehydrated cholera patients. "No one need die from this historic killer," he writes. "Even a poor country has no excuse for letting people die from this disease . . . Oral rehydration therapy should be able to save nearly all lives."