21.   Health officials on Wednesday confiscated and burned hundreds of contaminated fish plucked by hungry Romanians from a river polluted by a cyanide spill.

22.   Local officials, said Voloshyn, have warned residents of the danger of swimming or fishing in the rivers, where cholera was first discovered in contaminated fish.

23.   Schecter believes residents are eating contaminated fish.

24.   There were no reports of illness or poisoning from contaminated fish.

25.   Two people suffering from cholera in this southern Italian port may have contracted the disease from contaminated fish smuggled in from neighbouring Albania, local officials said Saturday.