Claudia Stein

TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.

TL;DR: The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) reports their first estimates of the incidence, mortality, and disease burden due to 31 foodborne hazards, finding that the global burden of FBD is comparable to those of the major infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

TL;DR: Leptospirosis is among the leading zoonotic causes of morbidity worldwide and accounts for numbers of deaths, which approach or exceed those for other causes of haemorrhagic fever.

TL;DR: Intrapartum-related neonatal deaths account for almost 10% of deaths in children aged under 5 years, but are potentially preventable and programmatic attention and improved information are required.

TL;DR: These estimates, based on the best available data and methods, clearly demonstrate malaria's enormous mortality burden and emphasize that these estimates are an approximation with many limitations and that the estimates do not account for malaria's large indirect burden.