The importance of English in the fight against infectious diseases: a review of research and coverage of global infections

The paper concerns the importance of obtaining professional English for the practice of a doctor, especially an infectious disease specialist. The language barrier is an obstacle that must be overcome through working English. Knowing professional medical English allows presenting the results of scientific research to the international medical community in the form of an article or report. The aim of our study was to prove that English is the leading language in the field of infectious diseases and the current coverage of COVID 19. In the course of the study, we analyzed the quantity of publications in English on several infectious diseases that are a global problem around the world. For the search, we used an international database PubMed with open access. In the course of our work, we have confirmed that the vast majority of medical articles on infectious diseases that are important for the whole world, such as malaria, typhoid fever and the new covid-19 coronavirus infection, are published in English. In this way, we have confirmed the role of English as the international language of science.