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Top Deadly Diseases of the Developing World

	Disease	Annual mortality rate	Annual infection rate
1.	Lower respiratory infections	4 million	—
2.	HIV/AIDS	3 million	39.4 million¹
3.	Malaria	1–5 million	300–515 million
4.	Diarrhea	2.2 million	4 billion
5.	Tuberculosis	2 million	8 million
6.	Measles	530,000	30 million
7.	Whooping cough	200,000–300,000	20–40 million
8.	Tetanus	214,000	500,000
9.	Meningitis	174,000	1 million +
10.	Syphilis	157,000	12.2 million¹

1. The HIV/AIDS and syphilis infection rate figures are worldwide totals of people infected with the diseases.

Source: Reuters and World Health Organizations. See also Leading Causes of Mortality Throughout the World, p. 667.

See also Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Tropical Diseases, Rare and Deadly Diseases, Food-Borne Diseases, Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases, Childhood Diseases.

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