ABSTRACT
Acute upper respiratory infections were the most prevalent disease group among first-visit infant outpatients, followed by gastroenteritis and colitis, tonsillitis, skin infections, eye infections, bronchopneumonia, and otitis media and mastoiditis; bronchopneumonia was the third most common cause of hospital deaths among infants, after tuberculosis and malaria. Both bancroftian filariasis and dracunculiasis are endemic in the western lowlands. Until the mid-1970s hydatid disease was considered a rare disease in Ethiopia. Historical travel reports contain vivid descriptions of attacks by dogs on humans, and of rabies, and indicate that the disease occurred at times in epidemic form in Ethiopia. Historical travel reports contain vivid descriptions of attacks by dogs on humans, and of rabies, and indicate that the disease occurred at times in epidemic form in Ethiopia. A considerable number of additional diseases and health problems of variable public health significance have been reported from Ethiopia.
