During the 1990s, the Metropolitan Region of Santiago faced important events of infectious diseases transmitted by food, such as typhoid fever and cholera. In 1992, the Ministry of Health launched an intense campaign to minimize the effects of a potential cholera epidemic. One of the most successful strategies was to pay attention to the irrigation of vegetables that supplied the city of Santiago from the west. These vegetables were watered with…
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During the 1990s, the Metropolitan Region of Santiago faced important events of infectious diseases transmitted by food, such as typhoid fever and cholera. In 1992, the Ministry of Health launched an intense campaign to minimize the effects of a potential cholera epidemic. One of the most successful strategies was to pay attention to the irrigation of vegetables that supplied the city of Santiago from the west. These vegetables were watered with…