WebQuest
Infectious Disease Exploration
Background and Diseases to Choose From
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Here is a chart to show you the deadliest of diseases and how they have changed over a 10-year period. Below the chart is a list with many of the infectious diseases that plague mankind. Pick one and really go for it with this project!
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2002 |
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1993 |
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World population |
6.2 billion |
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5.5 billion |
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Total deaths from all causes |
57 million |
100% |
51 million |
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Rank |
Cause of death |
Number Millions |
Percentage of total |
Number (millions) |
1993 Rank |
|
Communicable diseases category |
14.9 |
26.0% |
|
|
1 |
Lower respiratory infections |
3.9 |
6.8% |
4.1 |
1 |
2 |
HIV/AIDS |
2.8 |
4.9% |
0.7 |
7 |
3 |
Diarrheal diseases |
1.8 |
3.2% |
3.0 |
2 |
4 |
Tuberculosis (TB) |
1.6 |
2.7% |
2.7 |
3 |
5 |
Malaria |
1.3 |
2.2% |
2.0 |
4 |
6 |
Measles |
0.6 |
1.1% |
1.1 |
5 |
7 |
Pertussis |
0.30 |
0.5% |
0.36 |
9 |
8 |
Tetanus |
0.21 |
0.4% |
0.15 |
12 |
9 |
Meningitis |
0.17 |
0.3% |
0.25 |
8 |
10 |
Syphilis |
0.16 |
0.3% |
0.19 |
11 |
11 |
Hepatitis B |
0.10 |
0.2% |
0.93 |
6 |
|
Tropical diseases (6) |
0.13 |
0.2% |
0.53 |
9,
10, 16, 17, 18 |
Viral infectious diseases
AIDS
– AIDS Related Complex – Chickenpox or Varicella – Common cold –
Cytomegalovirus Infection – Colorado tick fever – Dengue fever – Ebola
haemorrhagic fever – Epidemic parotitis – Flu – Hand, foot and mouth disease –
Hepatitis – Herpes zoster – Influenza – Lassa fever – Measles – Marburg
haemorrhagic fever – Infectious mononucleosis – Mumps – Poliomyelitis –
Progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy – Rabies – Rubella – SARS – Smallpox
or variola – Viral meningitis – West Nile disease – Yellow fever
Bacterial infectious
diseases
Anthrax
– Bacterial Meningitis – Brucellosis – Bubonic plague – Campylobacteriosis –
Cat Scratch Disease – Cholera – Diphtheria – Endometriosis – Epidemic Typhus –
Glanders – Gonorrhea – Hansen's Disease – Legionellosis – Leprosy –
Leptospirosis – Listeriosis – Lyme Disease – Melioidosis – MRSA infection –
Nocardiosis – Pertussis – Pneumococcal pneumonia – Psittacosis – Q fever – Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever or RMSF – Salmonellosis – Scarlet Fever – Shigellosis –
Syphilis – Tetanus – Trachoma – Tuberculosis – Tularemia – Typhoid Fever –
Typhus – Whooping Cough
Parasitic infectious diseases
African
trypanosomiasis – Amebiasis – Ascariasis – Babesiosis – Chagas Disease –
Clonorchiasis – Cryptosporidiosis – Cysticercosis – Diphyllobothriasis –
Dracunculiasis – Echinococcosis – Enterobiasis – Fascioliasis – Fasciolopsiasis
– Filariasis – Free-living amebic infection – Giardiasis – Gnathostomiasis –
Hymenolepiasis – Isosporiasis – Kala-azar – Leishmaniasis – Malaria –
Metagonimiasis – Myiasis – Onchocerciasis – Pediculosis – Pinworm Infection –
Scabies – Schistosomiasis – Taeniasis – Toxocariasis – Toxoplasmosis –
Trichinellosis – Trichinosis – Trichuriasis – Trypanosomiasis
Fungal infectious diseases
Aspergillosis
– Blastomycosis – Candidiasis – Coccidioidomycosis – Cryptococcosis –
Histoplasmosis
Prion infectious diseases
Bovine spongiform
encephalopathy – Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – Kuru
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