hookworm disease
Britishnoun
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The results point to potential de-worming treatments to help fight some of the most neglected tropical diseases - including river blindness, schistosomiasis and hookworm disease - which affect around a billion people worldwide.
From Reuters ● Nov. 5, 2018
It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza.
From Time Magazine Archive
A war will be waged on the hookworm disease and malaria that infest the hot lowlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most important is hookworm disease.
From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by Cross, American Red
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