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Table 2.2
Estimates of Global Morbidity and Mortality
of Water-Related Diseases (early 1990s)
|
Disease |
Morbidity (episodes/year or people infected) |
Mortality (deaths/year) |
|
Diarrheal Diseases |
1,000,000,000 |
3,300,000 |
|
Intestinal Helminths |
1,500,000,000 (people infected) |
100,000 |
|
Schistosomiasis |
200,000,000 (people infected) |
200,000 |
|
Dracunculiasis |
150,000 (in 1996) |
- |
|
Trachoma |
150,000,000 (active cases) |
- |
|
Malaria |
400,000,000 |
1,500,000 |
|
Dengue Fever |
1,750,000 |
20,000 |
|
Poliomyelitis |
114,000 |
- |
|
Trypanosomiasis |
275,000 |
130,000 |
|
Bancroftian Filariasis |
72,800,000 (people infected) |
- |
|
Onchocerciasis |
17,700,000 (people infected; 270,000 blind) |
40,000 (mortality caused by blindness) |
| |
|
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Source: Table 2.2 from "The World’s Water." Data from World Health Organization, 1995, "Community Water Supply and Sanitation: Needs, Challenges and Health Objectives." 48th World Health Assembly, A48/INF.DOC./2,28 April, Geneva, Switzerland. |
