Sentences with phrase «most deadly infectious diseases»

The high mortality rate of the disease, estimated at around 60 % in the most recent outbreak, made it one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world.

Though it is preventable and curable, TB still kills 1.5 million people per year — 300,000 more than are lost to AIDS annually — and rates as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

However, the BCG vaccine was developed 86 years ago, and TB, with increasing drug resistance, now kills more than 1.5 million people each year, second only to HIV / AIDS as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

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Plasmodium falciparum is the aetiological agent of the most deadly form of malaria, an infectious tropical disease that accounts for up to one million deaths annually [1, 2].

Puppies are most susceptible to deadly infectious diseases during the ages of 3 to 9 months, so depending on your puppy's age when you brought him home, he may have gotten his first few puppy shots already.