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Because they had a survival rate,
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under his direction and his new rehydration method,
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of eighty-five percent,
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which was extraordinary by international standards.
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He had discovered the first effective therapy,
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one that is in fact the basis of present-day
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therapy for cholera,
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which is oral rehydration.
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Leonard Rogers' methods have been perfected,
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but he was the one
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who found an effective rehydration system.
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Soon we knew, then, that the state in Italy,