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FOCUS@HEALTH: Leprosy is least contagious among infectious diseases
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Filipino Reporter
07-25-2002
(Editor's note: Philip S. Chua, M.D. is cardiac surgeon emeritus in
Northwest Indiana, and currently the chairman of cardiovascular surgery of
the Cebu Cardiovascular Center at Cebu Doctors' Hospital in Cebu,
Philippines. He was a Denton A. Cooley Fellow in cardiac surgery at the
Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas. His health column appears on four
internet websites and three newspapers in the Philippines, including ...
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