Infectious diseases: an ecological perspective
BMJPublished 23 December 1995
Mary Wilson
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Improved sanitation, clean water, and better living conditions, along with vaccines and antimicrobial agents, brought many infectious diseases under control in industrialised countries, but infections continued to kill millions each year in the developing world.
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