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Some countries have strong cultural or religious traditions that promote vegetarianism, such as India, while other countries have secular ethical concerns, including animal rights, environmental protection, and health concerns. In many countries, food labeling laws make it easier for vegetarians to identify foods compatible with their diets.
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.
In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1] In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2]
Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among poultry and dairy cows, the United States has recorded its first human death due the virus known as avian influenza A or H5N1. The Louisiana patient died ...
The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms, that country’s health ministry told the BBC.
This season, the flu has already claimed the lives of roughly 1,500 people across the country, including nine children. Five youngsters’ deaths were recorded between Dec. 15 and Dec. 21.
Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
In the current wave of infections, it has spread to more than 48 species in at least 26 countries. It has caused mass die-offs of marine mammals too, including 24,000 sea lions that died in South ...