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    Stony Brook Doctors Help Kenyan Teen Begin a New Life

    Saline Atieno developed a dangerous and disfiguring bacterial necrosis called Noma as a young child in Kenya. Though the disease has a 90 percent mortality rate, Saline somehow survived, only to face an...

    June 10, 2021
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