Sabyasachi Kar, a doctor at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, shook his head in bewilderment. He was examining a Spanish-speaking patient with the help of a colleague who barely spoke the language, and he was getting nowhere. "It was ...
In the 1990s, scientists noticed that the deadly class of bacteria that causes tuberculosis had outsmarted the limited drugs available to treat it and taken on new and deadlier forms. Since then, the pandemic of drug-resistant TB has escalated. 2008 ...
SAN MIGUEL DUEÑAS, Guatemala—One year ago, Freddy Granados said goodbye to his wife, Hilda Gil, and their two small children here in a shack tucked between volcanoes and coffee plantations. With job prospects in Dueñas grim even for Granados, a skilled ...
DERTU, Kenya After three months of unusually heavy rainfall in late 2006, an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Kenya left 118 people and hundreds of cattle dead. Kenya’s Meteorological Department predicted the outbreak, but health officials failed to ...
ARUSHA, Tanzania—Inside a dark shop opposite a frenetic bus station, transistor radios are stacked beneath newfangled LED flashlights and belts hang like snakes from the ceiling, their buckles emblazoned with the decidedly un-African word Guangzhou. ...
Cycling the Silk Road After seven months in the saddle, Bob Seger takes me to China.The lunacy of Turkmenistan in the days of Turkmenbashi.The heartbreaking kindness of Tajik strangers. Mike Church posted Feb. 16, 2007 Dispatch From Beirut Forget about ...
Caribbean HIV fight struggles for funds Lower infection rates mean help is harder to come by Eliza Barclay, Chronicle Foreign Service Friday, December 1, 2006 (12-01) 04:00 PST Cinco Casas Bateye, Dominican Republic -- In halting Spanish, Amelia Cayo ...
Irapuato, Mexico -- When Catalina Garcia went to the local prosecutor's office last year to press charges against a 45-year-old neighbor who she said had raped her two underage daughters -- impregnating the youngest -- authorities advised ...
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