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The blue death: disease, disaster, and the water we drink.(Book review)
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Robert D. Morris
HarperCollins. New York, New York, USA. 2007.
320 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0060730895 (hardcover).
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At the time of writing this book review, cholera had broken out at an unprecedented level in the capital city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. More than 1,000 patients a day were being admitted to the treatment center of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) with severe dehydration due to cholera. In The blue death: disease, disaster, and the water we drink, physician and ...
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Still fighting apartheid
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Luyt's last stand in the laager.(Column)
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