![]() ![]() 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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