By IDSE News Staff
Although not all the top 10 health threats listed by the World Health Organization involve infectious diseases, most of them do.
The world is facing multiple health challenges, WHO said in setting its new five-year strategic plan (13th General Programme of Work). These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, HIV, and dengue. Noninfectious threats include the changing climate, obesity,