Between 1900 and 2000, the crude infectious disease mortality rate in the United States:

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Between 1900 and 2000, advances in public health and medical interventions led to a dramatic decline in infectious disease mortality rates in the United States. This decline was due to improved sanitation, vaccination, antibiotics, and other medical treatments. The mortality rate declined by about 90%, making option C the correct answer. The emergence of HIV infections in the 1980s did cause a slight increase in infectious disease mortality rates, but this was not significant enough to offset the overall decline seen over the century.

Between 1900 and 2000, the Crude Infectious Disease Mortality Rate