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Malaria outbreaks among ways Venezuelan crisis is straining Latin America's health care systems

Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 4:57 p.m.

b'Dan Farrell and Anna Stewart-Ibarra, PhD (photo by Jim Howe) Dan Farrell and Anna Stewart-Ibarra, PhD (photo by Jim Howe) The economic and political crisis in Venezuela is straining Latin American health care systems, with shortages of food and medicine, and disease outbreaks spilling over the border. Upstate assistant professor The economic and political crisis in Venezuela is straining Latin American health care systems, with shortages of food and medicine, and disease outbreaks spilling over the border. Upstate assistant professor Anna Stewart-Ibarra, PhD Anna Stewart-Ibarra, PhD, and fourth-year medical student Dan Farrell talk about the spread of malaria in places where the disease had been eliminated., and fourth-year medical student Dan Farrell talk about the spread of malaria in places where the disease had been eliminated.'