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Colombia's health ministry calls to suspend coca crop spraying

Author: Anastasia Moloney

BOGOTA, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia's health ministry has recommended suspending a herbicide used in aerial spraying of cocaine crops after a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) found it to be a likely cause of cancer.

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