Yes, that is a simple recipe, but this combination of ingredients is credited with saving more then 55 million lives worldwide. I am sure that does not account have many Munteanus' lives it saved since our arrival in Dhaka in January.
I have not even heard of ORS or Orsalinebefore landing in the land where it was invented. There is something top notch in the Desh, and that is the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. If anybody in the world knows something about treatment of dehydration caused by diseases like cholera, Shigella, typhoid, and other bacterial disasters, these are the guys.
So, thank you, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, for giving the world ORS. And excuse most of the world (including myself) for being ignorant enough to not even know who developed it.
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