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Historical examination of the cholera epidemic that began in peru in 1991, examining the many factors that contributed to the spread of the epidemic to 19 countries in Latin America. Dispells the myth that the epidemic was caused by misguided precautionary action on the part of Peruvian health offi...

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This brief news article started the baseless rumor that Peruvian health officials started a cholera epidemic in their country in 1991 by stopping chlorination of drinking water, as a precautionary measure to avoid the dangers of cancer from chlorination byproducts....

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C.T. 'Kip' Howlett recounts the false tale of a cholera epidemic being started in Peru by health officials taking precautionary action by shutting down water chlorination systems to avoid the cancer hazard from chlorination byproducts....

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Ideological opponents of the precautionary principle retell the false story of a choler epidemic supposedly being cause of health officials taking precautionary action in Peru in 1991, turning of water chlorination systems to avoid the dangers of cancer from chlorination by products. The story was ...

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Describes transmission of cholera through use of contaminated ice in drinks....

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Study revealign true causes of cholera epidemic in Peru in 1991: a public health infrastructure not up to the task of averting a waterborne epidemic of bacterial disease....

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Editorial in Lancet debunks the false rumor that an epidemic of cholera in Peru in 1991 was started by deliberat action of health officials stopping chlorination of water supplies as a precautionary measure to avoid the dangers of cancer from chlorination byproducts....

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Offers 7 criticisms of quantitative risk assessment and offers several alternative ways of gathering information for, and approaching, decisions affecting public health and the natural environment....

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Describes how the "risk assessment" approach to chemical regulation has created a fully-contaminated world, and suggests alternative policies that might actually protect the environment and human health from industrial poisons....

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Describes the promise and the perils of nanotechnology and cites recent British scientific reports calling for application of the precautionary principle as nanotechnology products are invented and deployed....