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The Frontlines
However, she warns that the diseases she fights in Honduras everyday can appear anywhere in the world: "It's clear that infectious diseases do not have borders; they do not respect borders. Nowadays, people are moving so much from one country to another country, every country is at risk [for] almost of every disease."
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English Sweate
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the underdeveloped countries, the poor conditions increase the risk of
disease and the scarce medical resources make harder to treat disease
properly. With so many diseases flourishing in these countries, if a Hanta
virus surfaced, it would very likely go unrecognized or untreated.
Dr.
Germaine Hanquet is a physician working in Honduras with the international
agency Doctors Without Borders. She also worked in Africa before coming
in Central America, and she has seen how important environmental conditionss
are to controlling disease.