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Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID

  • Written by Sarah Greene, Instructor in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Washington University in St. Louis
Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAIDThe parasites that cause river blindness and elephantitis have been afflicting people for centuries. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images

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