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Digestive diseases 30.3: 4.11%: −10.7 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases 16.5: 2.24%: −9.7 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases due to hepatitis B: 4.8: 0.65%: −14.3 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases due to hepatitis C: 4.2: 0.57%: −8.4 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases due to alcohol use: 4.1: 0.56%: − ...
In 2009, there were 13,997 reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis — the most infectious stages of the disease — the highest number of cases since 1995 and an increase over 2007 (11,466 cases). [6] The number of cases was ten times the 2009 figure by 2020, about 134,000, more than a 50% increase from 2016. [18]
[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 ...
Welcome to winter virus season. Cases of acute respiratory illness, Covid-19 and seasonal flu are increasing in most parts of the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and ...
During the week of December 5 (which is the most recent data available), there were 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks reported to state health departments across the country.
The most recent COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the XEC variant, Russo says. “The most recent version of the vaccine seems to be reasonably well-matched,” he says.
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 most sizable drops in death rates were among Hispanic men and women — decreases of 10.5% and 8%, respectively — and in American Indian and Alaska Native people, whose rates fell 11.5% for ...