What's killing us? For decades, global health leaders have focused on diseases that can spread - AIDS, tuberculosis, new flu bugs. They pushed for vaccines, better treatments and other ways to control germs that were only a plane ride away from seeding outbreaks anywhere in the world....
Stories Related to New Global Killers: Heart, Lung Disease And Cancer
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:55am
Topics: aids cancer flu germs global killer heart lung medical tuberculosis vaccine
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