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Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
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Why do diseases of poverty afflict more people in wealthy countries than in the developing world?
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States’ economic prowess and firstworld status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at the poverty level curre...