Viral Hepatitis
A curable and preventable infection that still kills more people than malaria.
Severity score
44.4
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Around 300 million people live with chronic hepatitis B or C. Vaccines and cures exist, but testing coverage is very low and most people who are infected do not know it. Deaths are rising even as other infectious disease mortality falls.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
58Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
66People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
26Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
2Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
50Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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