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Article: Less heat, more light on preventable diseases
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- June 3, 1998
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Less heat, more light on preventable diseases
by Winston Griner
For New Pittsburgh Courier
As we approach the 21st century, infectious and parasitic diseases remain serious problems. It's fine for President Clinton and other world leaders to discuss, even adopt, measures to combat distant threats like heat-induced ailments from global warming, but the significant health problems facing the world today are not hypothetical. They are real, and require attention now.
Last year, the World Health Organization reported that 17 million people, mostly in developing countries, died from preventable infectious and parasitic diseases.
Nowhere is this problem more critical than in sub-Saharan ...