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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.
[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 ...
Epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan points to India's relatively young population and uneven disease surveillance as reasons for the low death count. [20] Anurag Agrawal, director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, points to genetics and air pollution in India as a factor for the low death count. [20]
[15] [6] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [16] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some stage of endemicity where the country learns to live with the virus. [17] India began its vaccination programme on 16 January 2021 with AstraZeneca vaccine ...
Surprisingly, most emergent viruses are zoonotic, with natural animal reservoirs a more frequent source of new viruses than is the sudden evolution of a new entity. The most frequent factor in emergence is human behavior that increases the probability of transfer of viruses from their endogenous animal hosts to man.
Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common form of oral cancer in India and primarily affects middle age population (31–50 years). Epidemiologically, Kerala has the lowest and West Bengal has the highest incidence of oral cancer. For India, self-examination is the most effective method for early diagnosis of oral cancer. [10]
1994 plague in India; 2006 dengue outbreak in India; 2006 H5N1 outbreak in India; 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal; 2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak; 2014 Odisha hepatitis outbreak; 2015 Indian swine flu outbreak; 2021 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in India is a part of the ongoing outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus.The outbreak was first reported in India on 14 July 2022 when Kerala's State Health Minister Veena George announced a suspected imported case which was confirmed hours later by the NIV.