die each year from diarrheal diseases and
pneumonia, would have remained alive and well, if once a week received food
supplements containing zinc.
Free access to the most commonplace and inexpensive antibiotics would have saved
approximately 600 thousand children's lives. "These children are not dying from exotic or
intractable disease - told the Washington Post editor
North American edition of the Lancet, "Michael McCarthy. - It's actually
a tragedy which might well not be, "ITAR-TASS.
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