Estimate Of Global Burden Of 85 Infectious Diseases Suggests They Were Associated With Over 700M Disability-Adjusted Life-Years In 2019, Study Finds

Healio (5/23, Stulpin) reports, “An estimate of the global burden of 85 infectious diseases suggests they were associated with more than 700 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2019 – ‘a substantial portion of the overall burden from all diseases,’ researchers said” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The top three “pathogens responsible for more than 50 million DALYs each in 2019 were tuberculosis (65.1 million), malaria (53.6 million) and HIV/AIDS (52.1 million), according to the study.”