Epidemiology 4th leading cause of death from parasitic diseases worldwide organism of deaths/yr infected Entamoeba 75,000 n300 million Ascaris ~200,000 N480 million Schistosoma 750,000 200 million Plasmodium 2-3 million N500 million (Malaria) Amoebiasis is not restricted to the tropics and subtropics, it also occurs in temperate and even in arctic and antarctic zonesEpidemiology • 4th leading cause of death from parasitic diseases worldwide Organism # of deaths/yr # infected Entamoeba ~75,000 ~300 million Ascaris ~200,000 ~480 million Schistosoma ~750,000 ~200 million Plasmodium 2-3 million ~500 million (Malaria) • Amoebiasis is not restricted to the tropics and subtropics, it also occurs in temperate and even in arctic and antarctic zones