Bronchoalveolar lavage study in victims of toxic gas leak at Bhopal.

Bronchoalveolar lavage using flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope was carried out in 50 patients 1-2 1/2 yr after exposure to the 'toxic gas' at Bhopal. Thirty six patients in the analysis were categorised into 3 groups (viz., mild, moderate and severe), depending upon the severity of exposure.

Pattern of cholera in Raipur: a twelve year appraisal.

Outbreaks of cholera were recorded in Raipur in the years 1970, 1975, 1977 and 1979-1981. Change from V. cholerae classical inaba in 1970 to V.