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Bookmark or Share- 5 of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases - The World Economic ForumThese diseases are caused by pathogenic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. Sometimes their spread leads to pandemics that tear through populations, such as the 14th-century bubonic plague, which killed about 50 million people in Europe, or 1918’s Spanish Flu, which infected a quarter of the world’s population.
- Diabetes is a silent epidemic, killing nearly 7 million of us every ...It’s the silent epidemic that claimed an estimated 6.7 million lives around the world last year – more than the total recorded death toll from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Diabetes is on the march, with experts predicting that one in 10 of us will be affected by 2045. An estimated 537 million people already live with diabetes ...
- How does COVID-19 compare to other major causes of death? | World ...56 million people died in 2017, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death globally. More than a million people have now died of COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 – in the nine months since the first cases were reported in China. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it an “agonizing ...
- Vaccines have killed off these deadly diseasesSmallpox was responsible for around 300 million deaths in the 20th Century. But thanks to vaccinations, one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity has been wiped out. The eradication of smallpox is just one example of how global access to vaccines has saved countless lives around the world. Yet in recent years anti-vaccination ...
- How was smallpox wiped out? | World Economic ForumIt was eradicated by a collaborative global vaccination programme led by the World Health Organization. The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. It was feared for millennia and among the most deadly diseases facing humankind but today smallpox is no more. It is the only infectious disease that’s been successfully eradicated.
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