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World Service,16 May 2003,22 mins

Cholera - And Other Water-Borne Diseases

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A report on the diseases got from drinking, bathing and cooking with contaminated water. An outbreak of cholera in Peru was caused by eating fish which had eaten contaminated plants while in Iraq and Kuwait there has been an outbreak. The programme also looks at other water-borne diseases.

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