Infectious and Rare Diseases

Infectious Diseases in America

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than two million Americans develop antibiotic resistant infections each year, resulting in 23,000 deaths. As of March 2015, over 24,700 individuals had infected with the Ebola virus globally, and nearly half of this population had died. 10,000 Americans were diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in 2013, An estimated 4% of the population was infected with asymptomatic TB. Even though malaria is preventable and treatable, it still caused approximately 627,000 deaths globally in 2012.