Ink slinger* alerts to a story up at the Wall Street Journal on the increasing prevalance in the US of third edition by the editors of the red white and blue banner heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 rare, 3rd-world diseases such as toxocariasis, chagas, and cysticercosis. Health-care preparation pending in the House calls for a full report to society about the threat from this cluster of diseases, termed "neglected infections of poverty." "Parasitic infections and other diseases usually registered delegate person with the third world country world are cropping up with alarming frequency among US poor, especially in states along the US-Mexico border, the rural South, and in Appalachia, by the book to researchers. empire and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a meaning cause of heart disease, seizures and congenital birth defects among black and Hispanic populations. ... 'These are diseases that we know are ten-fold more substantial




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big than swine flu,' said [one] leading clinician in this field. 'They're on no one's radar.' ... These diseases share a common thread. 'People who live in the suburbs are at very low risk,' Dr. Hotez said. But for the 37 million people in the US who live below the poverty line, he said, 'There is real suffering.'"

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