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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 ...
India's Global Hunger Index India ranking of 67, the 80 nations with the worst hunger situation places it even below North Korea or Sudan. 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight, while 72% of infants have anemia. [15] It is considered that one in three malnourished children live in India. States where malnutrition is prominent: [15]
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.
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 fictional MEV-1 virus featured in the 2011 film Contagion was based on a combination of Nipah and measles virus. [60] A Malayalam movie, Virus, was released in 2019, based on the 2018 outbreak of Nipah virus in Kerala, India. [61] [62] In series 4 episode 1 of The Good Karma Hospital, a patient is admitted with Nipah. [citation needed]