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Typhoid spreading in western Chechnya

Some 75 people in the village of Lermontovo in Achkhoi-Martan Raion have contracted typhoid, which is spread by contaminated drinking water, ITAR-TASS reported on 4 April. Nineteen patients have been hospitalized. Last week, the number of persons to have contracted the disease was put at 19. LF
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