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Zambia expands effort to control its biggest killer.
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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February 14, 2006
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Byline: Laurie Goering
Feb. 14--LUSAKA, Zambia -- For decades, Zambia, like many African countries, has waged a losing campaign to curb malaria.
Health officials and aid workers have handed out mosquito-repelling bed nets, but never enough to protect whole communities. Common treatment drugs have become ineffective after years of use. Mosquito spraying has proved costly and logistically tricky to keep up consistently.
The result is that over the pa...
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; Byline: Laurie Goering LUSAKA, Zambia _ For decades, Zambia _ like many African countries ... and pregnant women. Fed up, Zambia's government and international ... country's piecemeal anti-malaria efforts and trying something unprecedented ... aim of getting 80 percent of Zambia's 11 million people ...
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