Dr. Richard Cash, who played a key role in the testing and implementation of an inexpensive and easy treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases that has saved tens of millions of lives, died ...
He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. By Clay Risen Richard A. Cash, who as a young ...
During a cholera outbreak in 1968 in villages east of Dhaka, two young public health specialists began giving desperately ill patients liter after liter of a simple formula: salt and sugar dissolved ...