(Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle) Houston scientists have launched an attack against little-known tropical diseases, scourges of the developing world, increasingly showing up in poor areas of Texas. The diseases, spread by all manner of blood-sucking insects, cyst-forming tapeworms and tissue-invading bacteria and viruses, typically don’t kill, but they cause chronic disabilities that trap sufferers in lasting poverty. …
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