{"id":292,"date":"2006-11-07T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/how-many-human-diseases-are-there\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:56:17","slug":"how-many-human-diseases-do-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/how-many-human-diseases-do-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"How many human diseases do we have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; asked my daughter this morning. I can\u00b4t renember having heard any figure before &#8211; my rough estimate is about 10,000. It depends very much how you count each viral\/bacterial disease and how you are dealing with the ageing process (the recent German invention of IGEL services in medical practice may have doubled disease numbers).<br \/>\nNevertheless there are only 379 chapters in the renowned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessmedicine.com\/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=4&amp;part=16\">Harrisons textbook<\/a> with the most frequent diseases are about 15. This was the result of a projection already 10 years ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v4\/n11\/full\/nm1198_1241.html\">Nature Medicine<\/a>. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; asked my daughter this morning. I can\u00b4t renember having heard any figure before &#8211; my rough estimate is about 10,000. It depends very much how you count each viral\/bacterial disease and how you are dealing with the ageing process (the recent German invention of IGEL services in medical practice may have doubled disease numbers). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/how-many-human-diseases-do-we-have\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How many human diseases do we have?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,2946,119],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-harrison","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-disease-frequency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}