The number of infections from eradicable diseases, World
Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980.For paralytic polio this chart shows an estimate of the total number of cases. For rabies this chart shows estimated symptomatic infections. For all other diseases thenumber of reported cases is shown — due to limited surveillance the number of reported cases may only be a fraction of total cases.
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- Deaths from infections of currently non-eradicable diseases
- HIV/AIDS deaths by world region
- Historical trends across infectious diseases
- Incidence of malariaIHME
- Incidence, prevalence and death of rabies
- Malaria deaths by ageIHME
- Malaria deaths by world regionIHME
- Malaria deaths by world regionWHO
- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis without extensive drug resistance
- Number of new cases of HIV
- Paralytic polio: estimated cases by world region
- Prevalence, new cases and deaths from HIV/AIDS
- Progress towards guinea worm disease eradication
- Reported cases of guinea worm disease
- Reported number of smallpox infections by world region
- Smallpox deaths as a share of all deaths in London
- Smallpox: path to eradication
- The number of deaths due to tuberculosis by WHO and IHME data
- The number of deaths from rabies by world region
- The number of deaths from tuberculosis by world region
- Tuberculosis: extensively drug resistant cases
- When were countries certified free of guinea worm disease?
- Year of the last reported rinderpest case