Malaria — Venezuela
Many turn to panning for black-market gold in the watery pits of mines, where mosquitoes infect them. Once they return home to recover, the disease spreads.
The 12th time [RB] got malaria, he hardly rested at all. With the fever still rattling his body, he threw a pick ax over his shoulder and got back to work — smashing stones in an illegal gold mine. As a computer technician from a big city, [RB] was ill-suited for the mines, his soft hands used to working keyboards, not the earth. But
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