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Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people who have been diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it.
The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. [note 1]In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns. [3]
This is a list of Indian states and union territories by infant mortality rates in 2019. The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.
A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders.. A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism.. A disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Tuberculosis; Other names: Phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, great white plague: Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrow-heads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows.
Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters where civil life is disrupted.