* This number includes 14.6 million people (13.2–16.1 million) with detectable skin microfilariae.1These are updated estimates recently published in Pullan et al. [27].
The reported DALYs were taken from WHO 2004 estimates [7]. Estimated DALYs for the NTDs by Hotez et al. [10] are also included for comparison (see text for details). The listed DALYs have all been sca
