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Crude mortality rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise.
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.
According to a 2012 study conducted by the University of Western Sidney, a staph infection—shortened from the bacteria’s full name, Staphylococcus Aureus—has a mortality rate of 10% and 30%.
However, staph infections are still prominent and a cause for concern among healthcare professionals, especially new antibiotic-resistant strains. In the U.S., the incidence of staph infection is around 38.2 to 45.7 per 100,000 person-years, whereas other First World countries have an average incidence rate of 10 to 30 per 100,000 person-years.
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 ...
2021–2022 India Black fungus (COVID-19 condition) 4,332 [311] 2022 hepatitis of unknown origin in children: 2021–2022 Worldwide Hepatitis by Adenovirus variant AF41 (Unconfirmed) 18 [312] [313] [314] 2022–2024 Southern Africa cholera outbreak: 2022–present Southern Africa Cholera: 3000+ [315] 2022–2023 mpox outbreak: 2022–2023 ...
Deaths Hokkaido: 15818 538 Honshū: Tōhoku Aomori Prefecture: 643 8 Akita Prefecture: 208 1 Iwate Prefecture: 467 25 Miyagi Prefecture: 2949 20 Yamagata Prefecture: 443 13 Fukushima Prefecture: 1448 33 Kantō Tochigi Prefecture: 3162 18 Ibaraki Prefecture: 3812 44 Chiba Prefecture: 17303 169 Tokyo: 85470 725 Kanagawa Prefecture: 33186 356
The COVID-19 vaccination in Japan began on 17 February 2021, more than a month after the first anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic in the country was commemorated. As of 22 October 2021, about 96.4 million people in Japan received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while about 86.9 million were fully vaccinated.