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June 15, 2005
 

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Outbreak of dysentery in country school

MANICARAGUA, Cuba - June 13 (Alaín Ramón Gómez Ramos, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - A dysentery outbreak in a country school here affected up to 70 students, it became known last Wednesday.

Authorities at the Tony Santiago school blamed untreated river water as the likely culprit.

The school houses hundreds of students between the ages of 15 and 18.

Municipal health authorities ordered the school closed, in spite of opposition by Education Ministry officials.

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