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Infectious diseases continue to be an important cause of suffering and death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate of global mortality for 1998, out of the total 53.9 million deaths, 9.8million (18.2%) were caused by infectious and parasitic diseases. Out of these 9.8 global deaths 9.7 millions occurred in low and middle income countries, and 0.1 million in high income countries. WHO estimates on the global burden caused by infectious and parasitic diseases for 1998 indicate that they account for 23.4% of Disability-Adjusted Life Years1 (DALYs); with 99% of them occurring in low and middle income countries2.
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DALYs express years of life lost to premature death and years lived with disability, adjusted for the severity of the disability. One DALY is one lost year of healthy life.
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Cosivi, O. (2002). Who Contribution to Global Surveillance of Microbial Threats. In: Dando, M.R., Klement, C., Negut, M., Pearson, G.S. (eds) Maximizing the Security and Development Benefits from the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. NATO Science Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0472-5_13
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