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The focus in medical news over the past few decades has been the rising trends of “lifestyle” related diseases – high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes mellitus and a panoply of cancers. These diseases have become the focus for both healthcare prac-titioners and society in general as our population appeared to have limited the threat of infectious diseases through a combination of robust public health measures and a well-managed national vaccination programme. Other than HIV infections, dangerous and debilitating infectious diseases appeared to be problems of poor societies in Third World countries.
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