Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 23

From chapter 1, table 1.2. This table from chapter 1 identifies diseases most clearly caused by microorganisms. Considering what you have learned in this chapter, are there more deaths caused by microorganisms than may be accounted for by the red-labeled diseases Can you make a rough guess of how many total deaths might be caused by viruses

*Diseases in red are those most clearly caused by microorganisms.
Source: Data from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data published in 2011 representing final figures for the year 2008.