Bert Hirschhorn, an international editorial adviser since the start of the newsletter in 1980, looks at progress in the control of
diarrhoeal diseases over the last 12 years and outlines future challenges.
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Over the last century as people have become cleaner and antibiotics have become widespread, the reduction in H. pylori has led to an increase in
diarrhoeal diseases and oesophageal cancer,» he says.