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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.
Deadliest bacterial foodborne outbreak in US. [6] [7] 2011: 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak in cantaloupes: Listeria: cantaloupe [6] Jensen Farms: 146: 30 [8] Second deadliest bacterial foodborne outbreak in US. Second deadliest listeriosis outbreak. 2008: 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak: Listeria: cold cuts: Maple Leaf Foods [9] >50: ...
[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 ...
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.
Astroviruses (Astroviridae) are a type of virus that was first discovered in 1975 using electron microscopes following an outbreak of diarrhea in humans. [1] In addition to humans, astroviruses have now been isolated from numerous mammalian animal species (and are classified as genus Mamastrovirus) and from avian species such as ducks, chickens, and turkey poults (classified as genus ...