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World Service,11 May 1999,23 mins

Fighting Yellow Fever In South America

Health Matters

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The re-appearance of Yellow Fever; and are youngsters getting enough sex education? Yellow fever has made an unwelcome return to South America in recent years. A preventable but contagious disease, spread by insects, has killed people in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The programme also asks whether youngsters are getting enough sex education? A report from a school in Tanzania.

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