MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Epidemic scorecard: A tally of epidemics: The scorecard, based on estimates from the World Health Organization in 2003, reads as follows: - Tuberculosis : 8 million new cases and 2 million deaths a year. A third of the world population has TB. Drug-resistant incurable strains on the rise.
- Malaria : 300-500 million new cases and a million deaths a year. Drug-resistant forms are increasing.
- Hepatitis B : 10-30 million new cases and a million death a year from hepatitis B, a leading cause of cirrhosis , liver cancer and liver failure.
- Diarrheal diseases: 2.7 billion new cases and 1.9 million deaths, mainly of children, per year from cholera , shigella , typhoid, E. coli , and other agents of diarrhea.
- HIV/AIDS: 5.5 million new cases of HIV infection and 3.1 million deaths a year from AIDS .
- Measles : 30 million new cases and nearly 900,000 deaths a year. Measles (also called rubeola ) is entirely preventable with a vaccine that costs 26 cents that has been available since 1963.
- Dengue fever: 20 million new cases and 24,000 deaths a year from this mosquito-borne disease.
- Influenza : 3-5 million new cases and 250,000 deaths a year.
- Yellow fever : 200,000 new cases and 30,000 deaths a year.
- SARS : About 5,400 cases and 350 deaths from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the first 180 days of the epidemic.
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