Dr. Peter Hotez: Arab revolutions and infrastructure breakdown causing disease proliferation

Houston-based physician and researcher Dr. Peter J. Hotez MD PhD, America’s leading advocate for and internationally recognized expert on tropical diseases and vaccine development, drew attention to the often overlooked issue of how political turmoil in the Arab world is opening the door to greater proliferation of disease, both in the region and potentially the world, in an opinion piece published by Al Jazeera last Friday. Dr. Peter Hotez is President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), founding Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology and Chief of the Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine at BCM, Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital, heads the Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and recently named the Fellow in Disease and Poverty at Baker Institute for Public Policy at the Rice University. On June 27 he testified...