Preoccupied by Western health problems of heart disease, blood pressure, ulcers, cancers and AIDS, we rarely devote much thought to tropical diseases yet they are increasingly relevant both to Western and to the global communities
ANY serious disease is devastating to the person concerned. But if we look beyond the suffering of each individual to the social and economic implications of any particular disease, we can begin to develop a sense of perspective on the problems that humanity faces. Western diseases are the scourge of a postindustrial society, but the numbers of people who suffer from them are tiny on…
