Tropical disease victims suffer silently: WHO

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 17:01 in Health & Medicine

About one billion of the world's poorest people suffer debilitating chronic infectious diseases such as dengue and leprosy, so companies need to be encouraged to create medicines to treat those afflictions, the World Health Organization says.

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