| INFECTIOUS DISEASES: THE LEADING KILLERS IN 1990 |
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| CAUSE OF DEATH | ESTIMATED NUMBER |
| Acute respiratory infections | 6,900,000 |
| Diarrheal disease | 4,200,000 |
| Tuberculosis | 3,300,000 |
| Malaria | 1,000,000-2,000,000 |
| Hepatitis | 1,000,000-2,000,000 |
| Measles alone | 220,000 |
| Meningitis, bacterial | 200,000 |
| Schistosomiasis (parasitic tropical disease) |
200,000 |
| Perussis alone (whooping cough) |
100,000 |
| Amoebiasis (parasitic infection) |
40,000-60,000 |
| Hookworm (parasitic infection) |
50,000-60,000 |
| Rabies | 35,000 |
| Yellow fever (epidemic) | 30,000 |
| African trypanosomiasis (Sleeping sickness) |
20,000 or more |
| SOURCE: World Health
Organization,1992,Global Health Situations and
Projections: cited in A. Gibbons, 1992, Science 256:1135. |
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