Diseases

Disease tools provide key facts on diseases that cause epidemics and should be used to inform project design, monitoring and evaluation for epidemic response.

Diseases organised: Alphabetically Per type

Acute respiratory infections

Acute respiratory infections (ARI): Influenza (avian and seasonal)

COVID-19 disease

Diphtheria

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

Leptospirosis

Measles

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Zoonotic diseases (diseases spread by animals)

Acute respiratory infections (ARI): Influenza (avian and seasonal)

Anthrax

Avian Influenza

Bovine Tuberculosis (Bovine TB)

Brucellosis

Chagas disease

COVID-19 disease

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)

Ebola virus disease (EVD)

Foot and Mouth Disease

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

Hepatitis E

Lassa haemorrhagic fever

Leptospirosis

Marburg virus disease (MVD)

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

Mpox

Nipah Virus

Pestes des Petits Ruminants

Plague

Rabies

Rift Valley fever (RVF)

Tick-borne encephalities

Yellow fever

Zika virus infection (Zika)

Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes

Chikungunya

Dengue fever

Leishmaniasis

Malaria

Rift Valley fever (RVF)

Yellow fever

Zika virus infection (Zika)

Faecal-oral infections

Cholera

Diarrhoeal diseases

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis E

Poliomyelitis (polio)

Typhoid fever

Haemorrhagic (bleeding) fevers

Ebola virus disease (EVD)

Lassa haemorrhagic fever

Marburg virus disease (MVD)

Rift Valley fever (RVF)

Other diseases

Epidemic of unknown origin

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)

Measles

Meningococcal meningitis

Mpox

Rubella