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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.
India's third national serological survey conducted in December 2020 and January 2021 revealed that only 3.5% of the total infections had been "detected" or "recorded". [9] In other words, for every case detected, about 30 went undetected.
[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 ...
[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 ...
No statistics are particularly accurate, but case and death rates in India (South Asia) and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular are probably much higher than reported. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] COVID-19 cases and deaths by region, in absolute figures and rates per million inhabitants as of 25 December 2022 [ 29 ]
Due to record breaking infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, protecting yourself and others from COVID-19 has never been more important. Dr. Anthony Fauci, key member of the White House ...
The French doctor Charles Anglada (1809–1878) wrote a book in 1869 on extinct and new diseases. [16] He did not distinguish infectious diseases from others (he uses the terms reactive and affective diseases, to mean diseases with an external or internal cause, more or less meaning diseases with or without an observable external cause).
Most vessels in 2024 have scored 95 out of 100. A score of 85 or less is considered unacceptable. The 10 dirtiest ships this year so far scored 89 or less, including one that received 62 points.