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Published online 4 February 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000210-1
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El Niño is being blamed again: this time for diarrhoea in Peru. Sara Abdulla reports.
El Niño, the weather cycle that can cause freak weather from California to Cape Town every 2 to 7 years, is also thought to influence the incidence of several infectious diseases including malaria, dengue and cholera.
Now a report in The Lancet (3 February 2000) suggests that during the most recent El Niño event in 1997 and 1998, 200 per cent more children than usual were admitted to one hospital alone for non-cholera-related diarrhoea in Lima, Peru.
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