Eritrea, northern Nigeria, and most recently Sierra Leone. Meningitis, lead poisoning and Ebola. My narrow experience of the three outbreaks—meningitis, lead poisoning and Ebola—demonstrates how poverty kills. Outbreaks flourish where there is insufficient investment in essential public health services, where poverty is the norm, where global neoliberalism sacrifices community health on the altar of free market capitalism.
Tag: lead poisoning
New Publication from HumEthNet Member John Pringle
Read "The unprecedented lead-poisoning outbreak: Ethical issues in a troubling broader context", Public Health Ethics first published online 11 September 2014.
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