Infectious diseases are a primary cause of death in the developing countries and a major impediment to their economic and social development.

• 2.5 million people die each year from AIDS, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa
• Over 2.5 billion people are at risk of infection with Dengue fever; and 50 million are infected each year
• Rotavirus, a cause of common diarrhoea, kills an estimated 600,000
  children each year
• 170 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis C – 3% of the
  world’s population
• In West Africa alone, there are 500,000 cases of Lassa fever a year

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