Infectious Disease Emergencies

For thousands of years, physicians have been battling infections. Infectious disease is likely responsible for more human deaths in history than any other cause, medical or nonmedical. In fact, it is said that mosquito-borne infections alone are responsible for more deaths than all of the wars in human history combined. For thousands of years, plagues and epidemics caused by infections have affected national leaders, armies, cultures, societies, and even world history. Some of the greatest physicians of recent centuries, including Lister, Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, Reed, and Ehrlich, made their mark via their discoveries that helped fight infections.

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