Table 1 Number of epidemics by outbreak pathogen and World Health Organization regional office
Disease | Number of epidemics by WHO regional office | Â | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AFROa | EMROb | EUROc | PAHOd | SEAROe | Total | |
Anthrax | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
Brucellosis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
CCHF | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Chikungunya | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Cholera | 145 | 36 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 208 |
Dengue | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 31 |
Diphtheria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Ebola | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
Hepatitis E | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Japanese Encephalitis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Lassa Fever | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
Leishmaniasis | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Malaria | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
Marburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Measles | 20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
Meningitis | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Meningococcal disease | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Plague | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Polio | 12 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
Rift Valley Fever | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Typhoid | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Yellow fever | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
Grand Total | 283 | 88 | 9 | 18 | 31 | 429 |