Opinion: Tropical Diseases: The New Plague of Poverty

August 18, 2012, 9:27 am by New York Times - Health

Extreme poverty in the United States is giving rise to a group of infections known as the neglected tropical diseases, which we ordinarily think of as confined to developing countries.

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