CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Dr. Jacinto Convit, who played a key role in fighting two of the world’s most feared diseases, has died in Venezuela at age 100, the foundation that bears his name announced Monday.
Convit’s work toward a vaccine for leprosy helped develop a therapy against the tropical disease leishmaniasis, which kills some 20,000 to 30,000 people annually across the world.
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