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"Communicable diseases continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Advances in disease prevention and control such as vaccination, antibiotics, vector control, hygiene and sanitation, and verall improvement in living conditions have produced optimism in recent decades regarding the control f communicable disease. Indeed the major causes of mortality worldwide are now noncommunicable conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease."

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