Guinea: Team Fights Waterborne Diseases in Developing Countries

Littleton — An expert team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traveled to the small West African country of Guinea-Bissau in September to help control an outbreak of cholera, which so far has killed 200 and sickened 12,000.

The team is part of a larger CDC program that works in developing countries to control and prevent waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery, which often are spread in contaminated drinking water.

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