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To: paintbrush who wrote (51555)6/20/2009 3:14:30 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219763
 
The man whom I took my name from: At the end of the last century, and at the beginning of this century, Brazil's public health was in serious crisis. Epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague and malaria were decimating our population, preventing economic development and impeding trade with other countries. Shipping companies would not allow their vessels to stop in Rio de Janeiro, the nation's capital, because they considered the port to be a health hazard.
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Then the bugs met Oswaldo Cruz...