Box 3.1 Table. Selected Water-related Diseases.
"Approximate yearly number of cases, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years. The DALY is a summary measure of population health, calculated on a population scale as the sum of years lost due to premature mortality and the healthy years lost due to disability for incident cases of the ill-health condition."
| Disease |
Number Of Cases |
Disability Adjusted Life Years
(1000 Dalys) |
Estimated Mortality
(1000s) |
Relationship To Freshwater Services |
a The upper part of the range refers specifically to 2001.
b Diarrhea is a water-related disease, but not all diarrhea is associated with contaminated water. The number in parentheses refers to the diarrhea specifically associated with contaminated water.
|
| Diarrhea |
4 billion |
62,000
(54 000b) |
1,800
(1700b) |
Water contaminated by human faeces |
| Malaria |
300-500 million |
46,000 |
1,300 |
Transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes |
| Schistosomiasis |
200 million |
1,700 |
15 |
Transmitted by aquatic mollusks |
| Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever |
50 to 100 million dengue & 500,000 DHF |
616 |
19 |
Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes |
| Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
18 million |
484 |
0 |
Transmitted by black fly |
| Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers |
17 million |
|
|
Contaminated water, food, flooding |
| Trachoma |
150 million with 6 million blind |
2,300 |
0 |
Lack of basic hygiene |
| Cholera |
140,000 to 184,000 a |
|
5 to 28a |
Water and food contaminated by human faeces |
| Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) |
96,000 |
|
|
Contaminated water |
|
