MEPS CALL FOR EU LEADERSHIP ON 'NEGLECTED DISEASES'

MEPs have backed calls for more pharmaceutical funding to be diverted to research on tropical diseases. During a public hearing on Wednesday in the European parliament, scientists and medical professionals told euro deputies that 35,000 people die every day from infectious diseases. And MEPs were informed that research and pharmaceutical production for diseases such as Leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and chagas disease are largely being ignored.

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