That same year the deadly disease killed more than 5,500 people in the United States. Today more than 35 million people around the world are living with an HIV infection. More than 25 million ...
The Greek physician Hippocrates called "consumption" — as tuberculosis was often known in the past — the most common deadly disease of his time. An estimated one billion people died from ...
But few diseases match the year-in, year-out power of this deadly viral infection. Each year it takes the lives of about 37,000 people in the United States and between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide.