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Study Points to Disease as Main Killer in Darfur
An ages old tale...
Study Points to Disease as Main Killer in Darfur
Donald G. McNeil, NYT, 22 Jan 2010
With violence in Darfur in an extended lull, a new study assessing dozens of mortality estimates for the six years of fighting there has concluded that about 300,000 people died, but that disease, rather than violence, killed at least 80 percent of them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/wo...tml?ref=africa
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