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  2. 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.

  3. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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    Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...

  4. List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll - Wikipedia

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    It is the world's worst listeriosis outbreak. 2011 2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak: E. coli O104:H4: fenugreek sprouts [2] >3,950 [3] 53 [4] Deadliest bacterial foodborne outbreak in Europe. Deadliest E. coli outbreak. 1985: 1985 California listeriosis outbreak in cheese: Listeria: queso fresco: Jalisco Cheese >86 [5] 47 or 52 [6]

  5. Plasmodium falciparum - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. [2] The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and causes the disease's most dangerous form, falciparum malaria.

  6. Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia

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    Up to half of the world's population is infected by T. gondii, but have no symptoms. [7] In the United States, approximately 11% of people have been infected, while in some areas of the world this is more than 60%. [3] Approximately 200,000 cases of congenital toxoplasmosis occur a year. [6]

  7. Plasmodium vivax - Wikipedia

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    Plasmodium vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.This parasite is the most frequent and widely distributed cause of recurring malaria. [2] Although it is less virulent than Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of the five human malaria parasites, P. vivax malaria infections can lead to severe disease and death, often due to splenomegaly (a pathologically enlarged spleen).

  8. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    With an average of 123.6 deaths per 100,000 from 2003 through 2010 the most dangerous occupation in the United States is the cell tower construction industry. [103] Selected occupations with high fatality rates, 2011, in the United States [104]

  9. Visceral leishmaniasis - Wikipedia

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    The disease is endemic in West Bengal, where it was first discovered, but is seen at its most deadly in north and east Africa. It can also be found throughout the Arab world and southern Europe (where the causative organism is L. infantum), and a slightly different strain of the pathogen, L. chagasi, is responsible for leishmaniasis in the new ...