You decide to donate antibiotics and vaccines to treat the cholera outbreak because lives are at risk.
USAID works with local medical staff in the camps and UNICEF to distribute the medicine. Myca’s president thanks you for the assistance, and you are pleased to strengthen the U.S. relationship with this important trade partner.
But there are further problems: Mycan students are still protesting the canceled elections. And some local officials have been caught hoarding humanitarian aid supplies and selling them on the black market.
— The Mayo ClinicI’m glad the United States acted so quickly. Left untreated, cholera can be fatal within hours, even in previously healthy people.
— Mycan student protest leaderWe refuse to back down. There will never be real democracy in Myca until we have free and fair elections.
— The Oklahoma News letter to the editorI’m not saying don’t help the Mycans. But how can the United States afford to help every disaster victim in the world?
