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We hope we can get this otherwise all our efforts will be overrun by the epidemic.
Tuesday, Apr. 03, 2012

Open quoteIt was like throwing a lighted match into a gasoline-filled room.Close quote

  • PAUL KEIM,
  • microbial geneticist, on Haiti's cholera epidemic, which is believed to have killed over 7,000 people and infected 500,000 more at a time when the country is still reeling from the effects of the 2010 earthquake
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