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Editorial Neglected Infections of Poverty among the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic Peter J. Hotez* Sabin Vaccine Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America The neglected tropical diseases are not constitute 85% of the population), less A review of literature (papers or ab- always exclusively tropical as defined by than one-fourth in northern Quebec (i.e., stracts in English only), using as MED- their endemicity between the Tropic of Nunavik), and the remainder in northern LINE/PubMed medical subject headings Cancer in the northern hemisphere and in Labrador or in Yukon and the Northwest (MeSHs) the specific diseases listed as the the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern Territories [10]. Many of the Inuit com- neglected tropical diseases on the PLoS hemisphere. Indeed, in previous articles, it munities are extremely isolated and acces- Neglected Tropical Disease Web site (http:// has been pointed out that neglected sible only by airplane or boat [10]. ) and the geographic infections occur wherever extreme poverty Another 50,000 Kalaalit Inuit make up regions and countries of the Arctic, over occurs [1], even in pockets of poverty in almost 90% of the population of Green- the last two decades but with emphasis on North America and Europe [2–4]. One of land [10]. The Kalaalit Inuit are consid- the last 10 years (reference lists of the more dramatic illustrations of poverty ered closely related to the Inuit in identified