What are the the most common diseases in Egypt?

Answer 1

Infectious diseases common in Egypt:

• Food and waterborne diseases - the number one cause of illness in travelers
• travelers' diarrhea
• Escherichia coli diarrhea
• hepatitis A / very common
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis C - highest prevalence in world see www.hcvegypt.com
• schistosomiasis - found in fresh water including Nile river
• typhoid fever
• Insect borne diseases
• parasitic diseases
• filariasis
• leishmaniasis
• Rift valley fever / rare
• amebiasis
• diptheria - endemic to the region
• West Nile fever

Answer 2

• eye diseases: prominent in healing manuscripts, as to be expected from the sand and dust of Saharan climate, but not detectable in depictions (note that the blind harpist may be an Egyptological concoction: images of singers with eyes closed may represent closing of eyes during singing, rather than permanent blindness)
• illness caused by bites of scorpions or serpents: prominent in healing manuscripts, as to be expected in the Sahara; in the first millennium BC Horus stelae were produced to protect against the threat of such creatures
• diseases affecting internal organs: difficult to detect even in well-preserved bodies
• other internal diseases: kidney stones have been reported from examination of mummified remains
• tuberculosis: several instances of spinal tuberculosis have been reported from human remains from Egypt, see Morse/Brothwell/Ucko 1964 (note that depictions of hump-backed individuals may be result of bad posture, or a disease other than spinal tuberculosis)
• polio: an Amarna Period stela shows a man named Rema with emaciated leg, and leaning on a staff, and this is the principal evidence for the occurrence of polio (poliomyelitis), and Nunn suggests that this may also be the condition causing the abnormalities in the body of king Siptah of Dynasty 19
• parasitic diseases: bilharzia (schistosomiasis), guinea-worm, roundworm, tapeworm

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