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Tanzania: Health Officials Distribute Chlorine to Check Cholera
Dec 18, 2006
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Health authorities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's commercial capital, have started distributing chlorine to purify water in wells, in a bid to control cholera, which continues to wreak havoc in the city.
"The chemical has been distributed to all three municipalities of Dar es Salaam and should be applied in wells three times a day," Deogratius Mutasiwa, the Dar es Salaam City Medical Officer, told IRIN.
He said chlorine had no side effects; it was also being used to purify piped water
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 18 December 2006
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