Helminthiasis
Deaths

Helminthiasis

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Helminth genera	Common name	Infections (million per year)	Direct deaths per year	Regions where common

Soil transmitted helminthiasis (STH) (classified as neglected tropical disease):

Ascaris lumbricoides	Roundworm	1000 to 1450 807 to 1,121	20,000	Many regions of South-east Asia, Africa, and Central and South America

Trichuris trichiura	Whipworm	500 604–795	In moist, warm, tropical regions of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the Caribbean islands.

Ancylostoma duodenale	Hookworm	900 to 1300 576–740 (hookworm in general)	In tropical and subtropical countries (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Necator americanus

Strongyloides stercoralis	Hookworm, pinworm	50 to 100	Thousands	In moist rainy areas of the tropics and subtropics, in some areas of southern and eastern Europe and of the United States of America

All STH together	1500 to 2000	135,000	Tropical and subtropical areas, in particular sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, China and east Asia.

Not transmitted via soil but classified as neglected tropical disease:

Schistosoma mansoni	Blood fluke	All types of Schistosoma together: 160 to 200 (210 "affected")	12,000 150,000 deaths from renal failure 200,000 indirect deaths from "causes related to" Schistosomiasis	In tropical and subtropical regions

Schistosoma haematobium	112 (in Sub-Saharan Africa alone)

Echinococcus granulosus	3	Developing countries

Not transmitted via soil and not classified as neglected tropical disease:

Toxocara canis	Dog roundworm	50	Many regions of South-east Asia, Africa, and Central and South America

Taenia solium	Pork tapeworm	50	South America, Southeast Asia, West Africa and East Africa

Taenia saginata	Beef tapeworm	50 (all types of Taenia: 40 to 60)

Hymenolepis nana	Dwarf tapeworm	100

Hymenolepis diminuta	Rat tapeworm

Fasciola hepatica, Fascioloides magna	Liver fluke	50	Largely in southern and eastern Asia but also in central and eastern Europe

Fasciolopsis buski	Giant intestinal fluke

Dracunculus medinensis	Guinea worm	Nowadays negligible thanks to eradication program	Formerly widespread in India, west Africa and southern Sudan

Trichostrongylus orientalis	Roundworm	1–3 ("several")	Rural communities in Asia

Other	100	Worldwide

Total (number of infections)	Approx. 3.5 billion	Worldwide

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135,000 die annually from soil transmitted helminthiasis.

final_sentence: 135,000 die annually from soil transmitted helminthiasis.