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abqtommy

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Sun Mar 1, 2020, 10:50 PM Mar 2020

A great deal of attention is being paid to COVID-19, and rightly so. Today I got to thinking about

various diseases that have been in the news over the last several years. These include Zika, Dengue Fever and Malaria plus many others that kill or injure millions of people around the world each year.
I've found two different websites that inform us about this, one for Neglected Tropical Diseases/NTD and another supporting the 3d International Conference On Tropical And Infectious Diseases to be held November 16-17, 2020 in Bali, Indonesia.

There's just too much information to post all the relevant text but I'm providing links so that if you have
any interest the information is accessible. This is very sobering since it shows just what we had to deal
with before this COVID-19 showed up. And still have to deal with.

link to Neglected Tropical Diseases/NTD:
https://blog.bccresearch.com/dengue-zika-drive-global-markets-for-neglected-tropical-diseases

link to 3d International Conference On Tropical And Infectious Diseases:
https://tropicaldiseases.infectiousconferences.com/

It's good to know that all these problems are being addressed.

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A great deal of attention is being paid to COVID-19, and rightly so. Today I got to thinking about (Original Post) abqtommy Mar 2020 OP
kickety kick abqtommy Mar 2020 #1
I just know none of those other diseases had 750 million Chinese quarantined uponit7771 Mar 2020 #2
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