Additional Human Diseases

This is a partial list of other human diseases in the area, or suspected in the area.

Malaria:

Malaria is one of the world's most prevalent diseases. Current estimates are over 500 million cases a year, and 3 million deaths. Each day 2,200 people die of malaria. Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds. Today malaria kills more people than it did 30 years ago. Most malaria deaths are preventable.

Soil Transmitted helminthiasis:

An estimated 2 billion people are infected with STH's.

Thypoid:

Current estimates are 21 million cases a year and 600,000 deaths. Most are preventable.

TB:

TB is the second leading killer of adults in the world, with 3 million deaths a year.

Leishmaniasis:

Cutaneous 1.5 million new cases a year. Visceral 500,000 new cases a year.

Cancer

Cholera

Chicken Pox

Dengue Fever

Dracunculiasis-guinea worm

Hepatitis A,B,C,E

Measles

Meningitis - Viral & Bacterial

Onchocerciasis

Polio

Trachoma