![]() ![]() However, none of those deaths were specifically attributed to intestinal helminth infections in GBD 2013. For example, ascariasis and trichuriasis are important causes of protein-energy malnutrition in developing countries, and almost 500,000 deaths were attributed to this condition in 2013 similarly hookworm infection is an important cause of iron deficiency anemia, a condition leading to 200,000 deaths in 2013. However, it is likely that deaths resulting from helminth infections were under estimated. ![]() Deaths caused by parasitic diseases in 2013 Parasitic DiseaseĪccording to the GBD 2013, the vast majority of parasite-related deaths resulted from protozoan infections. However, kinetoplastid infections – leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African trypanosomiasis – caused the deaths of over 80,000 people, while two intestinal protozoan infections – cryptosporidiosis and amoebiasis – resulted in over 50,000 deaths.Ī breakdown of those deaths is shown in Table 1. To no one’s surprise, malaria was by far the major parasitic disease killer in 2013, causing over 850,000 deaths, with many of those deaths in African children under the age of five infected with Plasmodium falciparum. Among the important findings were that globally, parasitic diseases caused more than one million deaths in the year 2013. The end of 2014 saw the release of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), in which 240 causes of death were studied through a systematic analysis. ![]()
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