Global & Disaster Medicine

One list of global problems that couldn’t be conquered in 2018. Wait till next year!

December 24th, 2018

CLIMATE CHANGE

EBOLA

YEMEN:  “……the starvation deaths of an estimated 85,000 children, and a 2-wave outbreak that led to more than 1 million cases of cholera.
….”

ROHINGYA

OPIOID CRISIS

GUN VIOLENCE

TUBERCULOSIS:  “…..TB kills more than any other infectious disease—1.6 million by the WHO’s count….”

NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES:  “….As 2018 draws to a close, so have the lives of 41 million people claimed this year by noncommunicable diseases…..”

MEASLES

#METOO

REFUGEES

 

 

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