Fake Medicines Pose Public Health Threat in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The World Health Organization says that about 17 percent of medicines in developing countries are fake and potentially responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children from diseases like
( AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File )
( AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File )
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