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Bookmark or Share- 7 deadly diseases the world has (almost) eradicatedThe truth is, we are on the brink of eradicating a string of deadly diseases that were, until recently, affecting millions of people. It has been 35 years since the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated.
- How does COVID-19 compare to other major causes of death? | World ...Globally, in the 16 years between 2000 and 2016, the group classed as communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional conditions – including HIV/Aids, diarrhoeal diseases and preterm birth complications – caused fewer deaths, with some dropping out of the top 10 altogether, according to the WHO.
- The deadly diseases being released as ice thaws - The World Economic ForumAnd rather than diseases being released by melting ice, some argue that as Earth warms northern countries will become more susceptible to outbreaks of "southern" diseases like malaria, cholera and dengue fever, as these pathogens thrive at warmer temperatures.
- 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.
- Vaccines have killed off these deadly diseasesIn the United States, diseases that caused widespread misery and death in past centuries have been eradicated or almost eradicated. Cases of diphtheria – a deadly disease that affects a person’s breathing – reduced 100% following the introduction of a vaccine.
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