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IMG 3681 | This year the recipient of the 2009 World Service Medal is United States Army Colonel Donald Gray Heppner, Jr., M.D. He is a research medical doctor at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, for his research in working toward a vaccine against malaria. Over 1.5 million die each year of malaria world wide. More than 3,000 children die every day mostly in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. | |
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