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Mark Green: “I myself suffered from malaria when I served as a teacher in Kenya in the mid-1980s.”

On the recordDecember 4, 2011
I myself suffered from malaria when I served as a teacher in Kenya in the mid-1980s.
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Mark Green
Republican · Tennessee

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Green shares personal experience with malaria to highlight its impact.

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