Fig. 1
From: Model Membrane Platforms for Biomedicine: Case Study on Antiviral Drug Development
Global health challenges of infectious diseases. a Over 15 million (>25%) of the 57 million annual deaths worldwide are the direct result of infectious diseases. b Several classes of infectious diseases cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people each year. Barriers to the successful treatment of these diseases include lack of basic resources, insufficient preventive measures, and ineffective therapies. Figure is adapted and updated from Ref. [47]. Original data was published in The World Health Report 2008 (World Health Organization, Genève, 2008)