Eradication of Guinea Worm Disease: Hearing Before the International Task Force of the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 17, 1987U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - 89 pages |
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Page 47 - Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Page 3 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a real pleasure to be here this morning.
Page 33 - Members of the Committee: It is a great pleasure to appear before you today to discuss the subject of health care reform.
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Page 18 - Bereuter. Mr. BEREUTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your testimony, gentlemen.
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Page 34 - Half of all the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people with waterborne diseases.
Page 60 - ... are available in every system. The question is how to prepare these personnel to be trainers. WHO ARE THESE TRAINERS? For purposes of this discussion, the personnel referred to here are those employed by water sector organizations who have technical skills of a...
Page 47 - World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the elimination of dracunculiasis as a public health problem during the 1990s.
Page 41 - ... people in the developing world are suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with inadequate provision of water supply and sanitation services: diarrhea, ascaris, dracunculiasis (guinea worm), hookworm, schistosomiasis (bilharzias, or snail fever), and trachoma.