News Headline

Disease 'halves people's incomes' in tropical countries

Source
SciDev.net

Publication Date
2013-01-21

[RIO DE JANEIRO] Tropical countries' per capita incomes could more than double if they managed to reduce their health burden from vector-borne and parasitic diseases (VBPDs) to that seen in temperate countries, a study has found.

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