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A Global Health Crisis.(Letter to the Editor)
Readers of our Sept. 22 cover package on children's health shared their concerns: allergies and overprescribed drugs. For the millions of kids who die needlessly, a nurse blamed "the fatalistic acceptance of death."
A Matter of Life and Death
Thanks for your article high-lighting the millions of kids around the world who die needlessly ("Where Living Is Lethal," Sept. 22). These precious children could be saved with inexpensive medicine or simple, well-applied public-health measures such as clean water and waste disposal. In my experience as a missionary nurse in Niger, I saw and struggled with the problems you mention and many more. The most ...
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