John Sauer: Stand Up for People that Can't Sit Down
Another pandemic -- namely more than two dozen diseases associated with poor sanitation -- now faces the same kind of unresponsiveness as AIDS did earlier. Every 20 seconds, a child dies of sanitation-related diseases, which kill five times as many children as HIV/AIDS. You didn't think you can die of diarrhea did you? Well you probably can't, but those living where open defecation is the norm can.
