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Chickenpox
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Polio
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Tuberculosis
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Influenza
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Detailed explanation-1: -Every year, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB). Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year – making it the world’s top infectious killer. TB is the leading cause of death of people with HIV and also a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Lancet: One in eight deaths in 2019 linked to bacterial infections, the second leading cause of death globally. First global estimates of mortality involving 33 bacterial pathogens and 11 types of infection suggest they were associated with 7.7 million deaths in 2019.
Detailed explanation-3: -An estimated 10·6 million people became ill with tuberculosis in 2021, compared with 10·1 million in 2020, and 1·6 million people died from tuberculosis in 2021 (including 187 000 individuals living with HIV), compared with 1·5 million in 2020 (including 214 000 individuals living with HIV).