Latin America rivers

Habitat of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the soil of semitropical areas along rivers and agricultural areas in Latin America. In children, acute dissemination causes severe illness, often associated with pustules or subcutaneous abscesses. In adults (mainly males) - usually many years after an asymptomatic primary pulmonary infection - chronic disseminated disease leads to mucocutaneous lesions (ulcerating papules and pustules, subcutaneous cold abscesses, sometimes scrofuloderma-like manifestations), especially around nose or mouth in about half of the patients. Itraconazole is the drug of choice. 

Mexico has the largest Chemical industry in Central and Southern America and is one of the most advanced countries of the region. It is estimated that it generates about 30 million tonnes of hazardous waste. Mexico has only one permitted hazardous waste landfill site and no incinerators. Mr. Bennett Jaffee, director of Environmental Services for Consultants Group, Latin America estimates that 90 % of the total hazardous waste is dumped into rivers, trash heaps, available open spaces or discharged into sewers. Only about 10% hazardous waste is disposed of in safe landfills or sttnage areas [21]. 

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