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Venezuelan girl's diphtheria death highlights country's health crisis
By Alexandra Ulmer and Maria Ramirez PARIAGUAN, Venezuela (Reuters) - Eliannys Vivas, 9, started to get a sore throat on a Friday last month in this languid Venezuelan town where papaya trees shade poor cinder-block homes. Five days later, Eliannys was dead, likely a victim of diphtheria, a serious bacterial infection that is fatal in 5 to 10 percent of cases and particularly lethal for children. Eliannys' story is also one of misdiagnoses and missed signals worsened by government secrecy around the disease.
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