How many diseases can human beings contract?

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How many diseases can human beings contract?

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Last updated Aug 22 2024.
Originally posted Aug 22 2024 12:02 AM.

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At present, there are just over 23k known human diseases.

There is a free, online research database called "MalaCards: The Human Disease Database."

https://www.malacards.org/

MalaCards: The Human Disease Database is a robust database designed to enable genomic and genetic researchers, investigators, and scholars to efficiently navigate the universe of human genes, genetic variants, proteins, cells, and biological pathways related to various human diseases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764584/

The release notes for Version 5.21 (dated 6 August 2024) state:

Upgraded disease list: 23,003 entries, 15,125 with associated genes, consolidated from 75 sources

https://www.malacards.org/about/releasenotes

A review of the database from 2018 can be found at:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764584/

Response last updated by psnz on Aug 22 2024.
Aug 22 2024, 4:03 PM

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Since we continue to discover new pathogens, and existing diseases in animals make the jump to humans from time to time, this is not a question that can be answered with any certainty.

Aug 22 2024, 9:29 AM

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