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Pneumonia is the most lethal of acute respiratory infections. In 1970, a first vaccine was developed. Nevertheless, vaccination is struggling to reach poor countries. In 2013, pneumonia killed 2 million children under 5 years old.

In 1824, a mysterious disease was observed in Bengal: leishmaniasis, a deadly disease that spread quickly to Asia, Africa and Brazil. Disease otherwise called black sore, because of a frequent symptom: blackening of the skin. An episode of the series "Serial killers". 

With 10% of the world's population, malnutrition remains one of the great scourges of humanity, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, with children being the most vulnerable. An episode of the series "Killer diseases". 

In the last ten years, malaria mortality has halved around the world thanks to prevention and new drugs, including artemisinin.

Although vaccination coverage has increased all over the world, vigilance agains measles should not be weakened, since there are still 147,000 deaths per year worldwide. In France, there's been a resurgence of the disease since the late 1980s. An episode of the series "Killer diseases".

From 1980 to the present, 25 million people have died of AIDS on the planet. In 2013, more than 35 million people live with HIV, including 25 million in Africa. Today AIDS has become a chronic disease accompanied by antiretrovirals. But still no vaccine...

Sleeping sickness has always been present in Africa. The cause of the disease is a parasite, the trepanosome, and the vector is the fly Tsé tse. In areas where this disease is almost extinct, the vigilance of health services must remain high...

Tuberculosis is as old as man. Robert Koch, in 1882, highlights the bacillus that will bear his name, but until the 20th century, only the improvement of living conditions and hygiene reduce the disease.

Maryline Loscos is a telecom engineer at CNES at CSG, Europe's spaceport. Its role is to implement all the means of communication used during the launch of the Ariane rocket.

Marina Rantanen is a young graduate in training at ESA (ESTEC). She likes to work on technologies that will one day be embedded in space.

On mission aboard the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, 37, an Esa astronaut, is the first European woman to have been in space since Claudie Haigneré. An aerospace engineer, she is also a fighter pilot, a graduate of the École de l'Air and the top of her class in 2005.

Gaitée Hussain is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. Her job consists in studying the planets around stars other than the Sun and discovering those that would potentially be habitable.