Geography

Geography: Risks from various geographic areas.
Introduction: Numerous diseases have greatly different prevalence or incidence rates in different parts of the world. There are many diseases that are more prevalent in the undeveloped world.

Condition count: 45; see list of conditions below.
Risk factor subtypes: Africa (21), Asia (17), South America (13), tropical areas (25)
Related risk factors: travel (52), poverty (23)

Risk factors: Risk Factor Center, risk factor list

Geography: Diseases list

The following list of medical conditions have 'Geography' or similar listed as a risk factor in our database:

A

• African Sleeping sickness ... Africa

B

• Bacterial meningitis ... low humidity
• Blastomycosis ... wooded areas

C

• Chagas disease ... rural areas
• Chancroid ... tropical areas
• Cholera ... Latin America, Asia, Africa
• Chronic Bronchitis ... cold wet climate

D

• Dengue fever ... tropical areas
• Dracunculiasis ... Africa

E

• East African Trypanosomiasis ... rural areas, East Africa
• Erythrasma ... tropical areas

H

• Heat exhaustion ... tropical climate
• Heat rash ... humidity, tropical areas, hot weather
• Hepatoma ... Far East, Africa
• Histoplasmosis ... Certain USA states
• Hookworm ... south-eastern United States

J

• Japanese encephalitis ... rural areas

K

• Kaposi's Sarcoma ... Africa

L

• Lassa fever ... West Africa
• Leprosy ... South America, Asia, Nepal, Africa, India, Myanmar
• Lyme disease ... wooded areas, tick-infested areas

M

• Malaria ... Africa
• Meningitis ... low humidity
• Meningococcal disease ... low humidity
• Mountain sickness ... visiting a high geographic area

P

• Pinta ... South America
• Pneumococcal meningitis ... low humidity
• Polio ... South America, Asia, Africa

R

• Rocky Mountain spotted fever ... wooded areas
• Rodent ulcer ... hot climate

S

• SARS ... certain parts of Canada, certain parts of Asia
• Schistosomiasis ... South America, Asia, Africa
• Sprue ... India
• STARI ... Southeastern United States

T

• Tick bite ... wooded areas, tick-infested areas
• Tick-borne diseases ... wooded areas, tick-infested areas
• Trachoma ... rural areas
• Trichinosis ... rural areas
• Tuberculosis ... certain countries
• Typhoid fever ... India

V

• Vaginitis ... humidity, hot weather

W

• Waterborne Diseases ... rural areas
• West African Trypanosomiasis ... rural areas, Western Africa, Central Africa
• West Nile fever ... Africa, Asia and Middle East

Y

• Yellow fever ... South America, Africa, tropical areas

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