Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?
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1 World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 5 Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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