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SciDev.Net: Poor housing standards can allow disease vectors to thrive
An unprecedented alliance of urban planners, doctors and scientists is needed to better prepare for "the looming threat of explosive urban epidemics" in an increasingly urbanised world, according to a review paper in The Lancet.
The world's urban population will double by 2050 and most of this increase will be in developing countries, according to UN estimates.
But how this will affect infectious diseases is poorly understood. Better......
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Threat of urban epidemics looms
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation