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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.
I. Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders: Respiratory infections and tuberculosis: 6.85: 19.49%: Enteric infections: 3.31 Sexually transmitted infections: 1.88 Tropical diseases and malaria: 1.37 Other infectious diseases: 1.57 Maternal and neonatal disorders: 4.00 Nutritional deficiencies: 0.52 II. Non-communicable ...
The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph; 28 m/s) and then, being heavier than air, descended onto nearby villages, suffocating people and livestock within 25 kilometres (16 mi) of the lake, resulting in the death of 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. [377] [378] [verification needed] [379] Marc Aaronson: 30 April 1987
As coronavirus ravages the U.S. population, the disease may be taking uninfected people with it. More people died from March through May this year than died last year, even after stripping out the ...
The death toll has fallen from past surges, but rates this summer still equate to COVID being one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. COVID is still killing hundreds a day, even as society ...
[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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However I think death by falling debris during a storm is more common than lightening deaths. So agree, but for different reasons.--T. Anthony 13:23, 18 February 2006 (UTC) "Movie legend Clark Gable died of long term heart disease hours before his son was born." - Not unusual: heart disease kills millions each year.