Communicable disease continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally, finds new GBD study published in @TheLancetInfDis. In 2019, an estimated 704M DALYs were associated with 🦠85 different pathogens🦠, including 309M in children under 5 🔗 ms.spr.ly/6189YB1Fz
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@TheLancetInfDis Three leading pathogens were found to be responsible for more than 50 million DALYs each in 2019: #tuberculosis (65.1M), #malaria (53.6M) and HIV/AIDS (52.1M), malaria being the leading pathogen for DALYs in children under 5 (37.2M)