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Fig. 53. Above, a typical "quebrada" or canyon on the west slope of the Andes 

 where Oroya fever abounds. Below, the famous "Oroya Fever Bridge" on Peruvian 

 Central Railway where hundreds of lives were lost from Oroya fever. (Photos 

 kindly lent by Harvard School of Tropical Medicine, previously published by 

 Strong et al.) 



