Humanity's Problems

Health and diseaseInfectious disease

Infectious disease

Diseases caused by transmissible agents.

Problem Priority Burden Trend Here as

Priority is computed from five sourced components under a published weighting. Burden is shown as an absolute figure rather than a bar, because a bar beside the score it feeds says the same thing twice.

2 problems here cannot be ranked yet. Not because they are small, but because nobody has found citable figures for every component. Each one names what is missing.

Malaria A mosquito-borne parasitic disease that kills mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention... unscored needs burden, trend, neglect, tractability
Tuberculosis A curable bacterial infection that remains one of the world's deadliest, concentrated overwhelmingly among... unscored needs burden, trend, neglect, tractability