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3 days ago · For our June Meetup, we will be reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. One paperback version runs 348 pages. The GoodReads blurb is In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a ...
2 days ago · Hulme's The Bone People explores themes of love, trauma, and cultural identity with haunting prose. Buy on Amazon; 18. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (New Zealand) Set during the 1860s gold rush in New Zealand, Catton’s The Luminaries is a complex and engrossing novel that blends historical fiction with a mystery that spans across time and ...
4 days ago · Which Colombian author, who wrote "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982? Hint
1 day ago · Tchaikovsky's sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera, but there is an ongoing debate as to whether cholera was indeed the cause and whether the death was accidental or intentional.
1 day ago · The global stockpile of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) was depleted until early March but exceeded the emergency target of 5 million doses in early June for the first time in 2024. As of 10 June 2024, the stockpile has 6.2 million doses. However, demand for the vaccine continues to outpace supply.
4 days ago · Cholera is raging in Bayelsa, Zamfara, Abia, Cross River, Bauchi, Delta, Katsina, Imo, Nasarawa, and Lagos. This is a sign that it might spread beyond the territories of these states.
2 days ago · The worst cholera outbreaks in 20 years are highlighting the dire shortage of vaccine supplies and the problems of vaccine inequity and manufacturing. Jane Feinmann reports. It’s nearly 18 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) raised cholera to its highest health emergency level, grade 3, in January 2023 after recording the ...
