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Top Deadly Diseases of the Developing World| | Disease | Annual
mortality
rate | Annual
infection
rate |
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| 1. | Lower respiratory infections | 4 million | — | | 2. | HIV/AIDS | 3 million | 39.4 million1 | | 3. | Malaria | 1–5 million | 300–515 million | | 4. | Diarrhea | 2.2 million | 4 billion | | 5. | Tuberculosis | 2 million | 8 million | | 6. | Measles | 530,000 | 30 million | | 7. | Whooping cough | 200,000–300,000 | 20–40 million | | 8. | Tetanus | 214,000 | 500,000 | | 9. | Meningitis | 174,000 | 1 million + | | 10. | Syphilis | 157,000 | 12.2 million1 |
1. The HIV/AIDS and syphilis infection rate figures are worldwide totals of people infected with the diseases. Source: Reuters and World Health Organizations. See also Leading Causes of Mortality Throughout the World, p. 667. See also Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Tropical Diseases, Rare and Deadly Diseases, Food-Borne Diseases, Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases, Childhood Diseases.
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