That link between a childhood sore throat and a heart valve is rheumatic fever, an inflammatory reaction we see less now, but its legacy patients fill our cardiology wards. Penicillin prevention fails here due to interrupted supply chains and the sheer difficulty of tracking a daily migrant labourer's child for ten straight years. My budget spreadsheets show the cost of valve replacement surgery far outstrips prevention, but the prevention line item is the first cut because its failures are silent until years later. I see it in the worry of our farmers, who know a single hospital visit can wipe out the savings from a whole season's perfect yams.
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