Word: concepción
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...Inside the Finlay, director Concepci?n Campa, a Politburo member, oversees an assembly line of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis, tetanus and meningitis. When a meningitis epidemic hit the U.S. in the late '90s, the pharmaceutical giant Smith-Kline came calling - working around the softened U.S. economic embargo against Cuba - to buy a special vaccine that Campa herself had developed. Asked if Cuba had any bio-weapons research going on in its labs that Time couldn't see, Campa strongly denied it. "You see all this equipment we've imported, even for things as simple as conserving the low temperatures...
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