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The Lancet

Volume 389, Issue 10080, 29 April–5 May 2017, Page 1686
The Lancet

World Report
Profile: INS in Bogotá—100 years improving Colombian health

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New challenges for a new century

In the 1960s, the National Hygiene Laboratory merged with Bogotá's Carlos Finlay Institute, which studied yellow fever. After several restructurings over the years, what began as Samper and Martínez's laboratory evolved into the INS, which has been instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, polio, and tetanus in Colombia and improvements in the water supply and sanitation in rural areas of the country.

For 100 years, the institute has been focused on improving Colombians' health, but the 21st

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