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Infectious diseases

Preventable infectious disease is estimated to cause two thirds of child deaths and, in 2008, more than 9.5 million people died of infectious disease.

A vaccine to prevent spread of H1N1influenza
was developed rapidly bypharmaceutical companies.

More about microbes

Learn more about microbes which cause disease on this Society for General Microbiology site.


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