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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children. But the Trump administration's decision to ...

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The lives of millions of South Africans with a litany of rare diseases can be vastly improved and even saved by addressing challenges in identifying, studying and treating their conditions.

This is the warning sounded by a team of scientists in an invited commentary on infectious diseases in a warming world, published in the latest issue of the South African Journal of Science.