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Vado Diomande, the African dancer and drummer who was struck with inhalation anthrax last month, is recovering and plans to dance and drum again.
In his first public comments since falling ill, Diomande praised his doctors.
“They do very good job,” he said. “Because if not them, maybe I’m not here today.”

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Vado Diomande, 44, a New York drum maker and performer, has contracted inhalation anthrax. Authorities believe that he may have contracted the illness from raw animal hides that he imports from Africa to build drums.
Diomande had recently travelled to Africa and became ill shortly after returning to the US. He had brought goat hides with [...]

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