This World Health Organization website feature focuses on tropical diseases. For visitors unfamiliar with which diseases out there are considered tropical, this website provides informative fact sheets on fourteen different tropical diseases. To view the factsheets, visitors should click on "Fact Sheets on Tropical Diseases", under the General Information heading near the top of the homepage. The fact sheets cover topics such as "Symptoms", "Transmission", "Treatment", "Prevention", "Economic Cost", and "Diagnosis". Under the "Multimedia" heading near the top of the homepage, visitors can click on the link "10 Facts on Neglected Tropical Diseases", to be taken to a slide show, via the link near the bottom of the page entitled "Read More About Neglected Tropical Diseases". The slide show explains that a neglected tropical disease is a disease that costs little to prevent, does not spread to wealthy areas and is of little priority to pharmaceutical companies when it comes to research and development of medicines for them. Under the Statistics heading near the bottom of the homepage, visitors can click on a link to get to the "Global Health Database", which contains "standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels."