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There is a growing appreciation of the huge health threat posed by increasingly resistant infectious diseases, especially in tropical areas of the developing world. Only with improved water, sanitation, housing, and education can enteric, parasitic, respiratory, and retroviral infections be controlled. In the industrialized world, development led to the control of typhoid fever, cholera, malaria, and now (at least relative to developing countries) even AIDS. Global development and the reduction of inequalities must therefore be the highest priorities in our efforts to control the diseases of poverty.

Important interim measures such as oral rehydration therapy and vaccines are lifesaving in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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