U.S. adults with knowledge of infectious diseases as of 2017
This statistic displays the percentage of U.S. adults that had heard of various infectious diseases as of 2017. According to the survey, 93 percent of U.S. adults had heard of at least one of the listed infectious diseases. However, only 6 percent of respondents had heard of tularemia, a bacterial infection transmitted from animals to humans through tick and fly bites.