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Word: anticholera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When new President Diosdado Macapagal took over Dec. 30, he intensified the anticholera campaign. New Health Secretary Duque put an end to the doubletalk about "choleriform" disease, attacked El Tor as vigorously as if it had been old-fashioned cholera. He sent saline solution to 1,300 rural health teams, put 27 ten-man vaccinating teams in the field. But it was too late to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cholera in the Philippines | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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