Each year malaria kills 1.1 million people and infects 300 million, and its incidence is growing 3% annually.

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Malaria kills 1.1 million people and infects 300 million a year, and its incidence is growing by 3% annually.

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Lung cancer, however, has a much lower survival rate, so remains the biggest killer, even though falls in smoking rates have reduced its incidence.

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That board has explicitly rejected stewardship with its implicit notion of incidence in favour of what it calls an entity-based approach to accounting.

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America saw its lowest- ever incidence (3.6 per 100, 000) in 2010.

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In a test of its power as a prophylactic it reduced the incidence of the disease by only 31%.

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Well, the incidence of disease in cattle has continued its remorseless rise.

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