Geographic representation of<unk>  endemic countries and their preventive chemotherapy requirement status in the year of 2020 from the World Health Organization. Deaths from<unk>  per million persons in 2012 Disability-adjusted life year for<unk>  per 100,000 inhabitants. The disease is found in tropical countries in Africa, the Caribbean, eastern South America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. S. mansoni is found in parts of South America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East; S. haematobium in Africa and the Middle East; and S. japonicum in the Far East. S. mekongi and S. intercalatum are found locally in Southeast Asia and central West Africa, respectively. The disease is endemic in about 75 developing countries and mainly affects people living in rural agricultural and peri-urban areas. +Schistosoma species and endemic regions Type of infection Species Location Intestinal Schistosoma mansoni Africa, Middle East, Caribbean, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname Intestinal Schistosoma japonicum China, Indonesia, Philippines Intestinal Schistosoma mekongi Cambodia, Laos Intestinal Schistosoma guineensis Central Africa rain forest Intestinal Schistosoma intercalatum Central Africa rain forest Urogenital Schistosoma haematobium Africa, Middle East, Corsica Infection estimates In 2010, approximately 238 million people were infected with<unk> , 85 percent of whom live in Africa. An earlier estimate from 2006 had put the figure at 200 million people infected. As of the latest WHO record, 236.6 million people were infected in 2019. In many of the affected areas,<unk>  infects a large proportion of children under 14 years of age. An estimated 600 to 700 million people worldwide are at risk from the disease because they live in countries where the organism is common. In 2012, 249 million people were in need of treatment to prevent the disease. This likely makes it the most common parasitic infection with malaria second and causing about 207 million cases in 2013. S. haematobium, the infectious agent responsible for urogenital<unk> , infects over 112 million people annually in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. It is responsible for 32 million cases of dysuria, 10 million cases of hydronephrosis, and 150,000 deaths from kidney failure annually, making S. haematobium the world's deadliest schistosome. Deaths Estimates regarding the number of deaths vary. Worldwide, the Global Burden of Disease Study issued in 2010 estimated 12,000 direct deaths while the WHO in 2014 estimated more than 200,000 annual deaths related to<unk> . Another 20 million have severe consequences from the disease. It is the most deadly of the neglected tropical diseases.
Schistosomiasis
Toxocariasis
Trypanosomiasis
Filariasis
Cyclosporiasis
Cryptosporidiosis
Tylosis
Acariasis