In Kuwait, where there was DU (and other wartime) exposure(s) but no post-war sanctions, the post-war incidence of cardiac malformations overall and of numerous specific sub-categories was elevated.
The low pre 1991 Gulf War baseline incidence of birth defects reported in the Basrah registry studies (3.04 per 1000 births) [ 6, 7] does not necessarily reflect a truly low incidence of birth defects in Iraq at that time, which could be attributed to incomplete registration of birth defects in Iraq.
With the exception of the two World Wars, the incidence of UC has been increasing among both adults and children over the past 100 years [ 2- 4].
In the South African War the annual incidence of enteric infections (typhoid and paratyphoid) was 105 per 1,000 troops, and the annual death rate was 14.6 per 1,000; the comparable figures for World War I were 2.35 and 0.139, respectively.
After World War I, the incidence of trench fever decreased dramatically, but during World War II, epidemics were again reported (6 ).
After World War II, the incidence dropped to 10 to 20 cases per year for 4 decades; the disease reemerged with approximately 200 cases in 2000 and 2001.
Although polio eradication efforts were hampered by the country's civil war, both the incidence of polio cases and the geographic circulation of poliovirus have decreased substantially.
When tuberculosis came under control in Norway after the Second World War, the annual incidence of new infections diminished rapidly, and the majority of clinical cases now occurred after reactivation of remote infection [ 12, 13].
As the number of users increased, so did the editing wars and the incidence of vandalism.
"I predict that the incidence of war will decline," he told me in 1996, two years before his death.
Because conflicts among neighbours tend to be frequent, regional integration is an important advance toward reducing the incidence of war.
