An average of 65 people per year in all of New York City contract the disease, according to the NYCHD.

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Yet of the 470, 000 women who contract the disease worldwide each year (15, 000 in the U.S.), half die within five years.

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Most truck-drivers and perhaps 40% of migrant miners contract the disease.

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On one flight studied, one passenger spread a particular strain to someone seated seven rows away, while people seated next to the ill passenger didn't contract the disease.

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The hepatitis A virus can survive in sea water for a number of weeks - meaning these people could contract the disease if the local sea water has been contaminated.

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Chuck Gerba, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona who is studying bacteria on touchscreens, says it's possible for people to contract a disease from sharing a device like an iPad.

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Scholars are teaming up with epidemiologists and social scientists to see if what you say and how you say it are determining factors in whether you'll get a loan, contract a disease or tend to stereotype people.

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Malaria was becoming a distant memory 50 years ago, but the World Health Organization now reports that over 200 million people contract the disease each year and nearly one million people die from the disease each year.

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Public Health Wales (PHW) continues to warn that the outbreak may spread with those not vaccinated "highly likely" to contract the potentially fatal disease.

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Meningococcal disease is both unpredictable and deadly, killing 10% to 20% of those who contract it.

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