It turns out that approximately 3.8 million people die every year in the world from fungal infections or related infections. If we talk about acute cases of these diseases, their number reaches 6.55 million.
Approximately 68% (2.6 million) of the total number of deaths associated with fungal infections were caused by the fungus itself, and the remainder were caused by other diseases with which the fungus overlapped.
Every year, more than 2.1 million people suffer from invasive aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fungi (about 1.8 million people die), 1.8 million people suffer from chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (mortality rate is 340 thousand people per year), 1.57 million people suffer from It turned out that he was in pain. Invasive candidiasis or bloodstream infections caused by Candida fungi (and 995 thousand people die annually).
In addition, every year Pneumocystis pneumonia occurs in 505 thousand people (of which 214 thousand people die), cryptococcal meningitis – in 194 thousand people (the annual mortality rate of this disease is 147 thousand people), other dangerous fungal infections – in about 300 thousand people. people (and about 161 thousand people die), fungal asthma – in 46 thousand people (the mortality rate from this is about 10% of all deaths associated with asthma).
Source: Ferra
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