World Health Organization

Infectious Diseases Kill Over 17 Million People a Year

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 3rd, 1996

Nearly 50,000 men, women and children are dying every day from infectious diseases; many of these diseases could be prevented or cured for as little as a single dollar per person, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in the published World Health Report 1996 (May 20, 1996).

At least 30 new infectious diseases have emerged in the last 20 years and now together threaten the health of hundreds of millions of people. For many of these diseases, there is no treatment, cure or vaccine.

"We are standing on the brink of a global crisis in infectious diseases. No country is safe from them. No country can any longer afford to ignore their threat," said...

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