2020年4月9日 · Tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest infectious disease. More than 600,000 people developed drug-resistant TB in 2016. Influenza infects up to 5 million people per year. Around 94% of malaria fatalities are in sub-Saharan Africa.

2021年2月3日 · Heart disease remains the number-one killer The leading cause of death in the world in 2019 was ischaemic heart disease, also known as coronary heart disease, the WHO report found. It was responsible for 16% of total deaths and since 2000 has seen the largest increase in mortalities, killing 8.9 million people in 2019.

2017年5月26日 · The 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.

2015年8月27日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …

2017年9月11日 · Cases of diphtheria – a deadly disease that affects a person’s breathing – reduced 100% following the introduction of a vaccine. Polio, a life-threatening virus that can cause temporary or permanent paralysis, has also been wiped out in the US as a result of vaccination.

2017年5月11日 · Anthrax may not be the only infectious disease lurking in the ice. In 2004, US researchers successfully revived the 1918 Spanish flu – which killed millions of people – from a fragment of a corpse’s lung frozen in the Alaska permafrost.

2019年4月25日 · Despite deaths caused by the disease halving since 2000, they have plateaued in recent years. And the incidence of malaria is on the rise. Overall funding for disease control has levelled off, and in combination with this the malaria parasite has begun to develop resistance to the drugs currently on the market.

2020年9月29日 · 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 milestone” – and Reuters calculated it equated to one person dying every 16 seconds .

2018年11月9日 · Venomics – the scientific analysis of venom – offers some groundbreaking solutions to health problems from heart disease to diabetes, to managing chronic pain. In fact, there are already six drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States that are derived from venom.

2021年10月19日 · The only licensed vaccine for prevention of Tuberculosis disease - the bacille Calmette-Guérin or BCG - was developed 100 years ago, and prevents severe forms of TB in children, says the WHO. As yet, there is no vaccine effective in preventing TB disease in adults, but results from a Phase II trial of the M72/AS01E candidate have shown promise .