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In January of this year, when China decided to lock down Wuhan due to COVID-19, Taiwan took an exceptionally … precautionary approach based on three major factors: Taiwan’s decades-long exclusion from the international health community without …; and the island’s geographical proximity to and geopolitical suspicion about China. Yet Taiwan’s proactive and …
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This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
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COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
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