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  2. List of medieval abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    H.D.—hac die or hodierna die. h·d·—his diebus or hereditas divisa. ħđ—hac die, heredem, heredibus. hđs—heredibus. ħeđs—heredes. hēs—habemus. h'es—habens. h·f·—honesta fœmina, honorabilis fœmina, hic fundavit. ħħbus—heredibus. hh.ff.—honestis fœminis. h·i·—hereditario iure or heres institutus. h'i—huius ...

  3. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  4. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    HeV Infection Hendra virus infection HF Heart failure: HFA High-functioning autism: HFMD Hand, foot, and mouth disease: HFRS Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: HI Hearing impaired: HiB disease Haemophilus influenzae type B disease: HIBM Hereditary inclusion body myopathy: HMSN Type III

  5. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...

  6. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death. A CFR is generally expressed ...

  7. 1557 influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    For example, the annual number of burials in Tonbridge increased from 33 on average in 1556 to 61 in 1557, 105 in 1558, and 94 in 1559. [38] Before the flu epidemic, England had suffered from a poor harvest and widespread famine [ 39 ] that medical historian Thomas Short believed made the epidemic more deadly.

  8. Sweating sickness - Wikipedia

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    The epidemiology of hantavirus correlates with the trends of the English sweating sickness. Hantavirus infections generally do not strike infants, children, or the elderly, and mostly affect middle-aged adults. In contrast to most epidemics of the medieval ages, the English sweating sickness also predominantly affected the middle-aged.

  9. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between ...