A perspective on the global problem of enteric diseases
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Experience has shown that neither drugs nor vaccines can hope to solve the world's enteric disease problems. But oral-fluid therapy, which has sharply reduced cholera mortality, is proving effective in treating other enteric diseases as well. And most developing countries are making real progress in providing the safe water supplies and sanitary conditions that deny enteric pathogens an opportunity to flourish and spread (Au)
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