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...devastating in other countries as it has been in Peru. "The country where cholera strikes first is always hit the hardest," claims Dr. Baldur Schubert, head of Brazil's National Commission for the Prevention of Cholera. "We've had time to prepare for the disease." The Brazilian government has distributed 450,000 illustrated pamphlets on the Amazon border to teach people how to combat cholera by boiling drinking water and washing one's hands after defecating. Authorities have also allocated $6 million to build public toilets in the area. In Colombia the folk troupe Los Natales is performing a modified...
...efforts fail, however, the disease could continue its eastward march and strike such major coastal cities as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are teeming with favelas, or slums. "That would be disastrous," says Afonso Infurna Jr., vice president of the Brazilian commission. "Health and hygiene conditions are already poor, and the disease could spread rapidly." Although Infurna and other commission officials predict they will contain the infection, they admit that the cost of treating a full-scale epidemic would be high -- on the order of $600 million...
...introducing foreign genes into a mouse and observing the effect on the animal's own genes), the scientists, led by Baltimore, closed ranks. The junior researcher, Irish-born Margot O'Toole, was asked to give up her place in the lab. The senior scientist accused of misconduct, a gifted Brazilian immunologist named Thereza Imanishi-Kari, went on to win a prestigious appointment at nearby Tufts University...
...Vatican is especially concerned about Brazil, supposedly the world's No. 1 Roman Catholic nation, with 126 million on church rolls. Barely a tenth of those registered Catholics are regular churchgoers. This means that, astonishingly, there are almost certainly more Brazilian Protestants in church on Sundays than Catholics. Protestants boast a minimum of 20 million churchgoers and are expanding twice as fast as the overall population...
Macedo, a former Catholic and spirit cultist, says Catholics "cause all the suffering and misery in the country" and accuses the spirit cults of devil worship and the sacrifice of children and animals. Striking back, the national body of Afro-Brazilian cults filed criminal charges in 1988 against the Universal Church for fraud and slander of other faiths. Police in four states are investigating the church. Macedo laughs off the inquiries: "If I'm really making them poor and am bad for them, why do the people keep giving and coming back...