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Health officials from nine different Latin American nations met in Sucre, Bolivia, last week to coordinate their efforts and issue an urgent call for international help. The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced the formation of a special cholera task force. In addition, France and the U.S. are sending supplies and medical staff to set up emergency clinics...
Relief efforts in Peru have been hampered by a strike among health-care workers. When Bolivia tried to send doctors to the Andean village of Puno, where an outbreak was beginning, the medical team was asked to stay home. Finally the strikers allowed a limited number of Bolivian technicians to disinfect Puno's sewage pipes with chlorine...
...spread by poor hygiene and contaminated water, raw food and fish. Street-side food vending in Lima has been banned, and a national media campaign is under way to encourage sanitary habits. In an effort to prevent the disease from spreading to their neighboring countries, health officials in Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile have prohibited the importation of uncooked Peruvian food products. Soccer matches in Lima between Peruvian teams and squads from Argentina and Uruguay have also been canceled. While the exact source of the outbreak remains unclear, tests of coastal waters have shown a high degree of contamination. Some reports...
...Drama: "Uganda magine the things I've been through. You wouldn't Bolivia eyes...
...then detonate a vapor cloud of fuel. The F.A.E. has been called the "poor man's atom bomb" because of the powerful explosion it generates. After it became known that Cardoen had helped arrange an F.A.E. test in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile three months ago, protesters in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina charged that Chile's production of such a terrifying weapon could set off a regional arms race...