International Medicine: What Do Developing Countries Need?

All countries in the world are closely interconnected: by travel, commerce, the Internet, media, the common environment and, of course, global health. Global health knows no borders. As Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean all have aging populations and confront chronic diseases and climate change, the threat of emerging infectious diseases like swine influenza and exceptionally drug-resistant tuberculosis also grows, driven in part by uncontrolled growth of mega cities, water shortages and poor sanitation. Dr. King Holmes shows how clinical and public health laboratories play a central role in preserving global health.

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