Sentence examples for killer in poor from inspiring English sources

It is a killer in poor countries for a simple reason.

Streptococcus pneumoniae kills a few American children each year, but is a major killer in poor countries.

Cervical cancer kills few women in rich countries, but it is a leading killer in poor ones where Pap smears are too expensive and vaccines against papillomaviruses are not yet available.

While measles is a relatively mild condition in developed countries, it is a major killer in poorer regions, especially when levels of disease and chronic malnutrition are already high, as in Darfur.

Now, illnesses associated with Western living standards are the fastest growing killers in poor and middle-income countries.

But by the teenage years, road injuries become major killers in poor countries as in rich ones.

It's easy, and studies suggest it could prevent up to two-fifths of all diarrheal disease and one-fourth of pneumonia, the two biggest childhood killers in poor countries, saving up to 1 million lives every year.

Results was also the first organization to get members of Congress to focus on tuberculosis, a leading killer especially in poor countries.

The Swiss drugs firm this week announced a partnership with the Institute for OneWorld Health, a non-profit research outfit, to develop drugs for secretory diarrhoea, a leading killer of children in poor countries.

Financing from the United States to combat malaria and AIDS, killers of children in poor countries, has grown, but spending to fight many other childhood illnesses has stagnated.

But chronic diseases are mass killers in the poorest nations, too.