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The causes |
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Several factors foster the breeding ground for Noma: the lack of hygiene, particularly oral hygiene, malnutrition which lowers immune defenses, and the effects of infectious diseases such as measles or malaria that weaken the system.
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The situation is aggravated by precarious standards of living that characterize extremely poor countries such as difficult access to health care and ignorance of the family and the community that see it as a curse, unaware that Noma is curable.
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