Telling the truth about antibiotics: benefits, harms and ...
Dec 01, 2003· Combustion of biomass fuels and infections. Acute respiratory infections are the leading cause of the global burden of disease accounting for more than 6% of worldwide disease and mortality in developing countries 4, 5. Acute lower respiratory infections were attributed to have caused up to 4 million deaths worldwide from 1997 to 1999 4.