Sari cloth a simple sustainable protector from cholera

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 00:30 in Health & Medicine

A five-year follow up study in Bangladesh finds that women are literally wearing the answer to better health for themselves, their families and even their neighbors. Using the simple sari to filter household water protects not only the household from cholera, but reduces the incidence of disease in neighboring households that do not filter.

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