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Volume 11, Number 4, April 2005

Emerging Infectious Diseases: a 10-Year Perspective from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Anthony S. Fauci,* Nancy A. Touchette,* and Gregory K. Folkers*
*National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 
 
Figure 1.
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Figure 1. Leading causes of death worldwide (estimates for 2002). Nearly 15 million (>25%) of the 57 million annual deaths worldwide are caused by infectious disease (6).

 

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