From 1816 to present

there were approximately 40 million to 50 million people died of Cholera. This disease is

sometimes known as Asiatic or Epidemic Cholera, an infectious gastroenteritis. Transmission to humans occurs

through eating food or drinking water contaminated with Vibrio cholerae from other cholera patients.

One infectious disease that has caught the attention of the world with so much controversy is AIDS with an

estimated 25,250,000 people died worldwide from 1981 to 2007 only. It is a disease of the human

immune system caused by the so-called human immunodeficiency virus or HIV. AIDS is now a pandemic with

33.2 million people contaminated with the disease worldwide.