1.   The local health workers are able to spread basic advice on health and cleanliness as well as providing cheap but effective medicine such as immunisations and rehydration salts.

2.   Although it can kill within hours, cholera is easily treatable with rehydration salts and medicines, once it is diagnosed.

3.   Poor-country governments need to make existing cheap medicines, such as oral rehydration salts and childhood vaccines, more available.

4.   Oral rehydration salts, critical for treating cholera have been almost nonexistent in Monrovia since relief agency warehouses were looted two weeks ago.

5.   Grant, an American, met with scores of government leaders, always carrying a packet of oral rehydration salts in his pocket.

6.   He always carried a packet of oral rehydration salts in his pocket, as well as a note on the number of children killed by preventable diseases.

7.   Only a few boxes of antibiotics and rehydration salts have been sent to Shibergan, one of the largest detention camps in the country.

8.   The supplies included cookies, hand lotion, soap, shaving gear, rehydration salts and a first aid kit.

9.   The supplies inlcuded cookies, hand lotion, soap, shaving gear, rehydration salts and a first aid kit.

10.   The supplies included cookies, hand lotion, soap, shaving gear, rehydration salts and a first-aid kit.