Diseases+and+Illnesses+in+Africa

= Diseases and illnesses in Africa =

Did you know that the greatest health concern is the aids crisis in Sub-Saharan, which is home to more than 70% of the worlds aids and that 19 million people have died from it so far. Another known disease is malaria and nine-hundred thousand people world wide die from it each year, 90% are in Africa, plus 3000 children die each day from the disease one child every 30 seconds. Some other rare diseases are Yellow Fever,Typhoid Fever,Hepatitis A,and Rabies. Yellow Fever is a tropical disease and is spread to humans by mosquitoes. Typhoid Fever is spread by contaminated food or water,Typhoid fever is characterized by a slowly progressing fever as high as 104 degrees fahrenheit. Hepatitis A is caused by an infectious disease from the liver caused by Hepatitis A (contaminated food or drinking water.)Rabies is caused by an animal that had brain inflammation and has then bit a human there are only six cases in were the person has lived three did not need treatment, and research shows that 55,000 people die from rabies each year most of the cases are in Asia and Africa.