August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
23h 35m
English
Over the last two decades the spread of new diseases such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has generated a renewed awareness of the threats posed by infectious diseases. Indeed, infectious diseases, such as cholera, meningococcal disease, and measles, cause 63 percent of all childhood deaths and 48 percent of premature deaths, and at least 300 million people have acute cases of malaria, 90 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa.1
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