The World Health Organisation, in a recent report, has described the Ischaemic heart disease and stroke as the world’s biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths in 2016. The report states that both diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years.“Lower respiratory infections remain the most deadly communicable diseases, causing 3.0 million deaths worldwide in 2016. The death rate from diarrhoeal decreased by almost 1 million between 2000 and 2016, but the disease still caused 1.4 million deaths in 2016.
“In the same vein, the number of tuberculosis deaths decreased during the same period but is still among the top 10 causes with a death toll of 1.3 million. HIV/AIDS is no longer among the world’s top 10 causes of death, having killed 1.0 million people in 2016 compared with 1.5 million in 2000.”
Source: Punch
