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This is a list of diseases known (or declared) to have been eliminated from the United States, either permanently or at one time. (" Elimination " is the preferred term for "regional eradication" of a disease; the term " eradication " is reserved for the reduction of an infectious disease's global prevalence to zero.)
0–9. 1738–1739 North Carolina smallpox epidemic; 1789–1790 influenza epidemic; 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; Tennessee cholera epidemic (1849–1850)
Borealpox virus (BRPV) [1] (formerly Alaskapox virus; AKPV) [2] is a species of the Orthopoxvirus genus first documented in 2015 in Alaska, United States. [3] As of February 2024, there are seven reported cases of illness, one of which became fatal due to a weakened immune system.
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This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, the vaccines that can prevent or cure them when they exist and their current status. Some on the list are vaccine-preventable diseases .
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.
The man, who lived in the remote Kenai Peninsula, was the first person to die of the disease, and only six other cases have been reported to Alaska health officials. This was the first one since 2015.
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