What diseases do the candidates care about most?

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http://scienceblogs.com/voteforscience/2008/09/what_diseases_do_the_candidate.php

What diseases do the candidates care

about most?

Obama

mentions three specific diseases, depending on how you read it: AIDS, lead

poisoning, and autism. Somewhere just above a million

Americans have HIV. Lead

poisoning affects a little over 300,000 children in the U.S. (which

disproportionately the poor, affects their future health). Autism, depending on

which statistics you read, may affect about 400,000 people in the U.S.

The

McCain plan lists two specific diseases: tobacco abuse, and autism.

Tobacco abuse is a significant public health problem that increases the

severity and prevalence of the major killers of Americans---heart disease,

stroke, and cancer (about 40 million Americans smoke).