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Nukus (n  ks`), city (1989 pop. 170,362), capital of Karakalpak Republic, W Uzbekistan, in the Khwarazm oasis and on the Amu Darya River. It has alfalfa and food-processing and other light industries, as well as a notable modern art museum. |
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Aral Sea Area Programme, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; ([dagger]) National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany ([double dagger]) Ministry of Health, Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan; ([section]) Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and ([paragraph]) World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland The study team chose food types for sampling based both on their capacity to accumulate organochlorine pesticides, and dioxins and on patterns of food consumption in Karakalpakstan known from a recent household dietary assessment carried out in Nukus (MSF 2001). In 1995, it sponsored a meeting in Nukus - a semi-autonomous region in Uzbekistan and the capital of Karakalpakstan, one of the hardest-hit regions in the Aral basin. |
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