Burden of emerging/re emerging diseases in India

• 1-2 million deaths for 1994 epidemic of plague

• 20,565 deaths in 2004 due to rabies

• 400 million chronic carriers of hepatitis B virus

• More than 18 million carriers of hepatitis C virus

• ‘Mutant’ measles virus infection in children

• 13,64,135 cases of Chikungunya virus infection by October 2006

• Seven million HIV infected

• Polio endemicity- India one among 7 countries in the world; 99% of polio cases are in India, Pakistan and Nigeria