What is the most common emerging infectious disease in North America?
Acquired immunodeficiency disease (AIDS) is now thought to have infected over 500,000 people in North America. World -wide there are thought to be approximately 1.5 million children affected by HIV. Approximately 75% of these are preventable. Effective treatment and prevention programs administered to pregnant women can decrease the transmission rate to newborns by between 50%-70%. What are the most recently recognized emerging infections that affect children? Emerging infectious diseases are diseases of infectious origins whose incidence in humans has increased within the past two decades or threatens to increase in the near future. The following are some of the most recently described emerging infectious diseases affecting children.
