In defending their ethnomedicine, the people of Chuuk point out that __________.

A) Western medicine only cures Western diseases, not local illness
B) they have never seen germs, but they have seen ghosts that cause illness
C) people treated with traditional medicine are cured faster than those who go to hospital
D) a combination of Chuuk medicine and Western medicine is the best approach


B) they have never seen germs, but they have seen ghosts that cause illness

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