In 2001, my research team was visiting a farming community innorthwestern Nigeria, where word quickly spread to neighboringvillages that foreign doctors were examining the mouths of sickchildren. Soon, a farmer arrived with one of his three wivesand their two-year-old daughter. The mother told us that thegirl was her fifth child and that three of the previous fourhad died before five years of age — two from "high fever"(presumably caused by malaria or measles) and one from noma,or cancrum oris, a noncommunicable infectious disease that destroysthe hard and soft tissues of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Enwonwu is a professor of biomedical sciences at the School of Dentistry and an adjunct professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore. He was formerly director of the Nigerian National Institute for Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos.
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