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Volume 11, Number 4, April 2005

Emerging Infectious Diseases: a 10-Year Perspective from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Anthony S. Fauci,* Nancy A. Touchette,* and Gregory K. Folkers*
*National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 
 
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Figure 2. Leading causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to infectious and parasitic diseases (2002 estimates). Lower respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, diarrheal diseases, and malaria are among the infectious diseases that contribute to the most DALYs each year throughout the world (6).

 

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