21.   Many international port cities lack sanitation facilities and raw sewage pours out of local rivers into harbors, a nearly perfect recipe for a cholera epidemic.

22.   President Bill Clinton responded quickly to the cholera epidemic, calling it the worst humanitarian crisis in a generation.

23.   Runnels added that the current cholera epidemic in some parts of the world poses little risk to short-term travelers who use care with their choice of food and water.

24.   Responding to the cholera epidemic, foreign countries, including the United States, and international relief agencies flew in hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid.

25.   The emphasis will be on Goma, Zaire, where a cholera epidemic is said to be taking hundreds of lives by the hour.

26.   The discovery prompted Indian army officials to suggest total evacuation of the area before a cholera epidemic sets in.

27.   The fear is that a large food distribution would cause the exodus to stop, which would cause a backup and creates a risk of a cholera epidemic.

28.   The outside world, led by the United States, must act quickly to save them from starvation and a potential cholera epidemic.

29.   The relief workers most desperately need clean water and sanitation to fight the cholera epidemic.

30.   They said a cholera epidemic had broken out in Bwerwemana, outside Sake, and children were dead along the road.