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"We found the highest probability of rabies outbreaks in Puntarenas Province in the south, indicating the need for localized, preventative interventions in that region to avoid rabies reemergence in people," says Julie Clennon, an eco-epidemiologist in Emory's Department of Environmental Sciences and co-author of the study.

He had departed from Puntarenas, Chile.

Puntarenas was just one of many areas caught up in a much larger problem: Cocaine production in Colombia was exploding.

Murillo persuaded Costa Rica’s federal institutions to focus on rehabilitating Puntarenas’s poorest communities — organizing youth sporting events, theater clubs, parenting classes, citizen safety patrols.

PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica — All was quiet that night on the Promenade of the Tourists, the famed boulevard overlooking this coastal city’s white-sand beach and softly lapping waves.