Commentary: Utahns should lead the fight against infectious diseases

We need a hero.Throughout all recorded time, diseases caused by microbial adversaries have always killed more humans than all of our swords, guns, cannons and bombs. While the 36 armed conflicts in our world last year resulted in 135,000 fatalities, there were over 2.9 million lives lost just to the top three infectious diseases: tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. These three diseases killed more than 20 times as many as our wars.This is despite the fact that we have the science and the medicines t