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Editorial Nuclear Weapons and Neglected Diseases: The ‘‘Ten- Thousand-to-One Gap’’ Peter J. Hotez* Sabin Vaccine Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., United States of America Introduction tution, which in 1998 published their US poverty found in the US, Russia, and Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project, the Eastern Europe [6]. Indeed, with the Together, the world’s eight acknowl- US alone spent $35 billion that year on possible exceptions of the UK, high edged nuclear powers—the United States nuclear weapons technology [2]. Further neglected disease burdens are present in (US), Russia, United Kingdom (UK), estimates indicate that the US may have all of the nuclear weapons states, particu- France, China, India, Pakistan, and the spent more than $5.5 trillion in developing larly the helminth infections, leishmaniasis Democratic People’s Republic of Korea their nuclear arsenal, while France has and Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, and (North Korea)—have amassed an arsenal invested approximately $ 1.5 trillion [3]. trachoma. of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons since Although the data are unavailable, the 1945. In addition, Israel is believed to be a costs for other nuclear weapon states are Helminthic Neglected Infections nuclear power while Iran (and possibly believed to be similar [3]. Therefore it is Syria as well) is also suspected of developing