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Duck plague (also known as duck viral enteritis) is a worldwide disease caused by Anatid alphaherpesvirus 1 (AnHV-1) of the family Herpesviridae that causes acute disease with high mortality rates in flocks of ducks, geese, and swans.
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.
[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 ...
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Over the last couple of centuries deadly pandemics have killed hundreds of millions of people. During World War II a disease that affected half the global population was heavily censored in the ...
Deaths from encephalitis (10 P) Deaths from endocarditis (38 P) F. ... Deaths due to insect-borne diseases (6 C) L. Deaths from leishmaniasis (3 P) Deaths from ...
The government of Slovenia confirms that the virus subtype H5 has been found in a wild swan by the Drava river near Maribor. The samples have been sent to the United Kingdom to determine if it is the deadly H5N1 strain. [16] February 13, 2006 Nihat Kabil, Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, confirms a second case of a swan with the ...