tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 27

Studies And Reports: Infectious Diseases Going Undiagnosed And Untreated

Hundreds of thousands of low-income residents of inner cities of the United States, the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, and areas near the Mexican border and Native American reservations remain undiagnosed and untreated for diseases that are prevalent in Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to an analysis published on June 25 in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The analysis, "Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States," prepared by Peter J. Hotez of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine of the George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., found that residents of these...

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