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[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 ...
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.
Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis: 1.9: 0.26%: 11.4 Other chronic respiratory diseases: 0.7: 0.09%: −3.2 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 ...
In the U.S., from a population of 105 million, the flu claimed about 675,000 lives—almost 10 times more than the country's World War I fatalities—and it dramatically lowered life expectancy by ...
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms. Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning ...
5–10 million [41] Antonine Plague: Roman Empire: 165–180 (possibly up to 190) Likely Variola − , possibly alongside Measles morbillivirus − 9. 5–8 million [39] 1520 Mexico smallpox epidemic: Mexico: 1519–1520 Variola virus − 10. 2.5 million [42] 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic: Russia: 1918–1922
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
Just reading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Travel page, with its list of some 60-odd diseases from African Sleeping Sickness to Yellow Fever may be enough to make you World's ...