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In Namibia, about one-quarter of children have stunted growth related to poor nutrition; about 120,000 children have lost one or both parents, predominantly to HIV/AIDS, and 26% of all women aged 15 to 49 have had at least one child die. Living more sanitarily may have increased asthma, but in terms of scale and impact, thats tiny compared with the benefit of not dying from disease for lack of hygiene, says Michael Bell, an infectious disease specialist and deputy director of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some scientists are searching for ways