Let them eat dark chocolate

摘要

PYE DOGS and circling scavengers gave the first clue. When villagers approached the riverbank, the stench confirmed the horror. By the time authorities collected and buried all the bodies on May 11th, the count had risen to 71. And this was at just one bend in the sacred Ganges, by the village of Chausa on the border between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India's poorest, most underdeveloped states. In the same week at least three other grisly human logjams were reported upstream.These sad scenes reveal two things. One is the scale of the tragedy now sweeping India's vast interior. Far away from city labs, no one gets tested, so no cases are recorded, so no deaths are captured in the official national toll, which at 258,000 is a small fraction of the real tally (see Briefing).