Intestinal infectious diseases
Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels including: cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others.[1]
Typhoid and paratyphoid resulted in 221,000 deaths in 2013 down from 259,000 deaths in 1990.[2] Other diseases which result in diarrhea caused another 1.3 million additional deaths in 2013 down from 2.6 million deaths in 1990.[2]
References
- ^ Smallman-Raynor, Andrew Cliff, Matthew (2013). Oxford textbook of infectious disease control : a geographical analysis from medieval quarantine to global eradication (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780199596614.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013". Lancet. 385 (9963): 117–71. 17 December 2014. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMC 4340604. PMID 25530442.