These include adult diseases, such as genital herpes, which give vaccine firms access to a lucrative private market.

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Medical science and public health have virtually eliminated many childhood diseases, and have made once deadly adult diseases easily treatable.

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Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.

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