Poor Alabama county is a hotbed of “neglected tropical diseases”

“In a paper that will be submitted to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Houston team reveals that the county is plagued by ‘at least five tropical parasites,’ that result from a deadly combination of historic poverty and climate change’s heavy rainfalls and high temperatures.
The dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine estimates that 12m Americans live with a ‘poverty-related neglected tropical disease,’ including people living in Houston’s poverty-stricken Greater Fifth Ward” where few houses have mosquito screens and garbage heaps in the street collect rainwater and breed mosquitoes.”