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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.
Other infectious diseases: 1.57 Maternal and neonatal disorders: 4.00 Nutritional deficiencies: 0.52 II. Non-communicable diseases: Cardiovascular diseases: 31.59: 72.67%: Neoplasms: 16.43 Chronic respiratory diseases: 6.97 Digestive diseases: 4.11 Neurological disorders: 5.84 Substance abuse: 0.58 Diabetes and kidney diseases: 4.55 Skin ...
[19] [20] [21] The morbidity and mortality of TB and HIV/AIDS have been closely linked, known as "TB/HIV syndemic". [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 ...
Joining norovirus on a list nobody would want to be a part of is hepatitis A, which ranked second as the most viral. According to the report, it causes 14 million cases of foodborne illness a year ...
According to the World Health Organization, as of 2011 there were 12,420 different diseases and health-related ailments. In other words, you should be thanking your immune system and modern ...
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms. Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning ...
Johannesburg — For weeks it was dubbed simply "Disease X." But the mysterious flu-like disease that has killed more than 143 people — mainly women and young children — in the Democratic ...
Infectious disease deaths by country subdivision (10 C) Infectious disease deaths by country (166 C) 0–9. 7th-century deaths from infectious disease (2 C)