| Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)§(per 1000 person-years) | |||||
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Years of life with disability (YLD) | Years of life lost (YLL)†|  | ||||
Pre-control endemicity‡ | Blindness (ratio)* | Visual impairment (ratio)* | Troublesome itch (ratio)* | Associated with vision loss (ratio)* | Associated with high microfilarial load (ratio)* | Total DALY burden (ratio)* |
Mesoendemic | 3.6 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 2.7 | 5.9 | 20.6 |
Hyperendemic | 11.4 (3.2) | 4.4 (3.1) | 15.3 (2.2) | 8.8 (3.3) | 29.6 (5.0) | 69.5 (3.4) |
Highly hyperendemic | 49.0 (13.6) | 18.8 (13.4) | 21.0 (3.0) | 37.0 (13.7) | 72.3 (12.3) | 198.7 (9.6) |