Is anything worse than usual in Kohistan Lower right now?

Yes. Non-cholera diarrhoea is above usual: 1.9× its usual for these weeks.

Above usual · 1.9×

271 non-cholera diarrhoea cases a week, against a usual 142.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

⅛×usual8×

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for this district alone. Illnesses with fewer than 5 cases a week here are left out: too few to compare.

What makes the most people ill here?

Non-cholera diarrhoea: 92 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea92 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea3 in 100
  • Typhoid2 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives1 in 100
  • Malaria1 in 100
  • 4 others1 in 100

4,928 reports from Kohistan Lower so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Too few weeks of reports, or too few cases, to show a season in Kohistan Lower yet.

How does Kohistan Lower compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Kohistan Lower is 4th of the 80 districts with enough non-cholera diarrhoea to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.8×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.8×Bajaur: 0.8×Bannu: 1.1×Barkhan: 0.8×Batagram: 1.5×Buner: 1.4×Chagai: 1.2×Charsadda: 1.4×Chitral Lower: 1.1×Chitral Upper: 1.2×D. I. Khan: 1.3×Dadu: 1.2×Lower Dir: 1.3×Upper Dir: 1.9×Ghotki: 1.3×Hangu: 2.0×Haripur: 1.3×Harnai: 1.5×Hyderabad: 1.3×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.3×Jamshoro: 1.1×Jhal Magsi: 0.4×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.8×Central Karachi: 1.3×East Karachi: 0.9×Karachi Keamari: 1.3×Korangi Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.7×South Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.3×Karak: 1.5×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 1.0×Khairpur: 0.9×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 1.4×Killa Abdullah: 1.4×Kohat: 1.2×Kohistan Lower: 1.9×Kohistan Upper: 1.0×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.9×Lakki Marwat: 1.1×Larkana: 0.9×Lasbela: 1.2×Loralai: 1.5×Malakand: 1.7×Mansehra: 1.3×Mardan: 2.0×Mastung: 1.0×Matiari: 0.9×Mirpur Khas: 1.0×Nasirabad: 0.9×Naushahro Feroze: 0.8×North Waziristan: 1.3×Nowshera: 1.3×Nushki: 0.9×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 1.2×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.8×Shangla: 1.2×Shikarpur: 1.0×Sohbatpur: 0.8×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.9×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.4×Sujawal: 1.0×Sukkur: 1.0×Swabi: 1.8×Swat: 1.4×Tando Allahyar: 1.1×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.9×Tank: 1.0×Tharparkar: 0.8×Thatta: 1.2×Tor Ghar: 1.7×Umer Kot: 1.1×Upper Kurram: 1.5×Usta Muhammad: 1.3×Kohistan Lower

Across Pakistan as a whole, non-cholera diarrhoea is at 0.8× its usual; here it is 1.9×.

Why each district against itself. A large district always has more cases than a small one. Each dot is a district against its own usual, so size drops out.

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for Kohistan Lower.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Kohistan Lower: it would put 98% of people more than two hours from care. A figure that cannot be right is left out rather than shown.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Kohistan Lower?

Yes, for this week. Kohistan Lower sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Kohistan Lower, most recent last

A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.