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Algeria hit by plague outbreak
BBC News ^ | July 10

Posted on 07/11/2003 10:37:54 AM PDT by Dustin DeNiro

UN health officials are helping Algeria to investigate an outbreak of plague in the west of the country which has claimed at least one life.

A team from the World Health Organization and other international bodies went to the Oran region after reports of plague emerged last month.

Algeria's health ministry has announced 10 laboratory-confirmed cases to date and one probable case

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algeria; algerians; france; plague; terrorists; who
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The man that once did sell the lion’s skin While the beast liv’d, was kill’d with hunting him. A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves; upon the which, I trust, 104 Shall witness live in brass of this day’s work; And those that leave their valiant bones in France, Dying like men, though buried in your dung-hills, They shall be fam’d; for there the sun shall greet them, 108 And draw their honours reeking up to heaven, Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime, The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.

1 posted on 07/11/2003 10:37:54 AM PDT by Dustin DeNiro
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I believe it was Oran in Algeria where the novel by Camus The Plague was set.
3 posted on 07/11/2003 10:48:08 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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