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It doesn’t have any overt symptoms, but around the world, environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) causes lifelong harm to the most vulnerable children.

Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Nicholas Kristof has one simple, powerful suggestion this gift-giving season: instead of giving trinkets, "save lives."

During the first 15 years of the 21st century, deaths from malaria fell dramatically. But progress is not inevitable and has recently stalled. New tools, like vaccines, are needed to keep efforts on track.

A lot of ugly things in nature are relatively harmless (Exhibit A: the star-nosed mole)—but Cryptosporidium isn’t one of them.