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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-09-23 20:31:00


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Cornering the Market on Essential Drugs

A few months ago, I treated a patient for a case of pinworm, a parasitic infestation that affects roughly 400 million people worldwide, with 40 million of those cases occurring within the United States. Though pinworms can be found in middle-class suburbs, the parasite is common in settings of urban poverty, including the low-rise public housing complexes across the street from my East Baltimore clinic, where far too many people struggle to survive on less than $2 a day.



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