FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines

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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines
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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.

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Oh really ? Damn i was there last year and no different that other 3rd world. Rampant poverty, shitty roads etc. Mind it , I was not living in the city , city is developed but same is the case for all 3rd world countries.

Come to the midwest of the USA. You'll find all of that shit out here, too, if you know where to look.

The US is also a third world country just like china.

I don’t separate countries by arbitrary terms like “third world.” It’s a country and people live within it.

"Third world" just meant Africa, but picked up the "poor" connotation from those ads in the 80s with the starving african children, a "Nimrod" affect.

If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn't take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.

3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.

No, that was also a later definition. 1, 2, 3 were new world, old world, Africa.

under neither definition does China fall under third world.

China is not in the African continent and it was (mostly) in the USSR side during the Cold War.