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Suspected diarrhoea kills two in the southeast

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    Two people have died of a disease thought to be diarrhoea in Buchanan, a town in Grand Bass County some 100 km southeast of Monrovia, the independent Star radio reported on Monday. Reports form the town said 38 more people were undergoing treatment at various health facilities The administrator of the government hospital, Augustine Nagbe, said most patients were suffering from running stomachs and that many were infants and elderly people. The main cause of the disease, he said, had not yet been established, but health officials suspect contaminated food and pollution.

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