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grantcart

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13. The US Government through the CDC and the WHO has effectively eliminated all of the communicable
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 01:09 PM
Jan 2013

diseases that were epidemic among European and American populations like small pox, measles, , mumps, etc.

Look at this map

http://www-tc.iaea.org/tcweb/publications/factsheets/communicable_diseases.pdf

The mortality rate of communicable diseases in Africa has reached an astounding 63% of all deaths.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201210230197.html

Because elimination of communicable disease is the easiest and cheapest it is the first step of any health system the US has virtually no deaths from communicable deaths:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus11.pdf#044 (page 23 communicable diseases don't even warrant a line)

There are millions of Africans who are dying because they are experiencing 19th century medicine.

Right now there is no other alternative for these millions of Africans who are at risk. It is either the Gates coordinating a massive response or nothing.

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