WHO Fact Sheets: Infectious Diseases
2024
These fact sheets from the World Health Organization (WHO) provide an overview of a wide range of infectious diseases, as well as their global burden, modes of transmission, symptoms, and diagnostic methods. These fact sheets are often accompanied by related news stories and other publications from the WHO.
Fact sheets available:
- Onchocerciasis (2022)
- Dengue and Severe Dengue (2023)
- Trypanosomiasis, Human African (sleeping sickness, 2023)
- Leishmaniasis (2023)
- Schistosomiasis (2023)
- Trachoma (2022)
- Taeniasis/Cysticercosis (2022)
- Buruli Ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, 2023)
- Leprosy (2023)
- Yaws (2023)
- Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections (2023)
- Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease, 2022)
- Ebola Virus Disease (2023)
- Malaria (2023)
- Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis, 2024)
- Echinococcosis (2021)
- Lymphatic Filariasis (2023)
- Rabies (2023)
- Foodborne Trematode Infections (2021)
- HIV/AIDS (2023)
- Tuberculosis (2023)
- Chikungunya (2022)
- Poliomyelitis (2023)
- Yellow Fever (2023)
- Zika Virus (2022)
WHO Fact Sheets: Infectious Diseases
Source:
Infectious Diseases. Fact Sheets. World Health Organization 2024. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets.