According to Adolfo Zarate, responsible for the Flu Program of the Ministry of Health, to date there are 852 cases of A H1N1 flu with declining infection rates. Zarate stressed out that 150,000 vaccine doses for the type A flu; are confirmed to arrive by next Wednesday. Those doses will be handed in to three risk groups: older than 65 years old;…
Day: October 22, 2011
Bolivian potato or potatoe?
It doesn’t matter how you say it, it matters Bolivia has plenty of it!!! Kudos to the National Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Innovation (INIAF), and to those Cochabamba producers who for the first time, planted 1,555 potato varieties that exist in Bolivia. To preserve and protect the genetic patrimony of Bolivian tubercles. Around 60 people, among small producers, INIAF technicians and local authorities,…
Austrian tourist missing in Bolivia, October 22, 2011
His name is Elmar Stellnberger, entered Bolivia on September 18th, from Peru. Bolivian police is searching for his whereabouts, as well as the Austrian Embassy. A photo of Stellnberger appears in the link below. This post is for tourists in Bolivia that may know anything about this unfortunate event, to call to the Austrian Embassy in…
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