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ARI AND MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
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... This is probably an underestimate, however, since much of the available information about meningitis incidence comes from passive rather than active reporting. In many parts of the world where meningitis epidemics are a recurring health threat, there are limited laboratory capabilities to confirm these diagnoses.
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... Among the variety of epidemiologic risk factors for ARI, three stand out as especially important: being very young, being malnourished, and living in poverty. These and other risk factors are described in a recent series of studies overseen by the National Research Council's Board on Science and Technology for International Development.2 2 Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol.
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... in practice, children often die of multiple causes, and malnutrition is a contributory cause in approximately one-third of all child deaths. Measles deaths are sometimes ascribed to acute respiratory infection, as a severe case of measles renders a child highly susceptible to other infections.
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