Sentences with phrase «worldwide killer disease»

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Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, lead author of the research, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London said: «TB is the top infectious disease killer worldwide, yet we have had little idea of the true scale of the problem in India — the worst affected country.

The 2013 Global Burden of Disease study estimated there to be 800,000 pneumonia deaths annually worldwide and the disease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria coDisease study estimated there to be 800,000 pneumonia deaths annually worldwide and the disease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria codisease continues to be the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five, with more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria combined.

According to the World Health Organization, TB is a top infectious disease killer worldwide and is estimated to have infected 9.5 million people and caused 1.5 million deaths in 2014.

The drug candidate has a huge potential market: cardiovascular disease is the world's leading killer, taking the lives of 17.5 million people annually worldwide and disabling millions more.

One of the biggest killers in history, the disease was effectively wiped out in the 1970s by a worldwide vaccination plan.