Why the poo taboo has held back a killer disease, and what’s changing
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is a disease that kills more than one million people a year, nearly half of them children under five, and it rarely breaks through in global health coverage. Researchers have a name for that gap: the “poo taboo.” People, including journalists and policymakers, are less comfortable engaging with diarrheal disease than with other killers of comparable scale. That discomfort has shaped research funding and attention for decades, which is part of why no vac
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