Without new treatments,the W.H.O.says, the number of new cancer patients could reach twenty-seven million a year by two thousand thirty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Asia and Africa have the highest number of snakebites together about four million a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The number of deaths could reach seventeen million a year.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The island population is estimated by the UN at over half a million, with an equal number of Cape Verdeans living abroad.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Dr.Fauci says the number of new infections has stayed relatively the same, under three million a year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17