Editorial Team: As Swine Flu captures the headlines, it emphasizes the threat posed by global diseases, and the concerted policy action they require. We are inviting you to vote for what you consider the most pressing disease.
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Cholera re-entered the stage in Zimbabwe in August, since killing 1600 people and sickening 33 000. ++ Alarming is the fact that this is only one of the country’s long list of flaws; every sector of civil society is near to devastation. ++ One of the latest tragic events is the government’s closure of public hospitals in November 2008. ++ “But Zimbabwe’s agonies are not humanitarian in nature;
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