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Table 2 World population affected by study arboviruses

From: Measuring the burden of arboviral diseases: the spectrum of morbidity and mortality from four prevalent infections

Arbovirus

Number of affected countries

Population in endemic countries (% of global population)

Estimated deaths per yeara

Chronic cases per yeara

Yellow fever

44

972,155,287 (15%)

675-30,000

0 to 1,955

Japanese encephalitis

23

3,706,910,037 (57%)

3,500 to 15,000

7,350 to 22,500

Chikungunya

41

2,548,842,950 (39%)

33 to 25,761

1,193 to 46,453

Rift Valley fever

32

778,528,381 (12%)

4 to 91

12 to 272

  1. a Note: These are annualized averages over combined epidemic and interepidemic periods.