Posted March 19, 2020: by Bill Sardi
LIST OF HUMAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES / CASE FATALITY RATES |
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Source: WIKIPEDIA Courtesy of Knowledge of Health |
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FATAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE |
TREATMENT |
CASE FATALITY RATE |
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African trypanosomiasis (protozoa) |
Untreated |
~100% |
Visceral leishmaniasis |
Untreated |
~100% |
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis |
Untreated |
~100% |
Rabies (viral) |
Untreated |
~99% |
Smallpox (Variola virus) |
Untreated |
~95% |
Ebola virus |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
83-90% |
AIDS, HIV virus infection |
Untreated |
80-90% |
Anthrax bacterium |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
>85% |
Aspergillosis fungus, pulmonary |
— |
50-90% |
Influenza A virus, H5N1 |
— |
~60% |
Bubonic plague |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
5-60% |
Tularemia (rabbit fever), bacterium |
Untreated |
~60% |
Marburg virus |
Untreated |
23-90% |
Plague (lung), bacterium Yersinia pestis |
Untreated |
50% |
Tetanus (lockjaw), bacterium |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
50% |
Reye’s syndrome (aspirin w/fever) |
— |
40% |
Dengue fever |
Untreated |
26% |
Leptospirosis (blood), spirochete |
— |
5-30% |
Legionellosis (lung), bacteria |
— |
~15% |
Meningococcal disease, bacterium |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
10-20% |
Typhoid fever |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
10-20% |
SARS coronavirus |
Vanished since 2004 |
11% |
Botulism (Clostridium botulinus) |
— |
<10% |
Diphtheria, bacterium |
Untreated, unvaccinated |
~5-10% |
Yellow fever, virus |
Unvaccinated |
7.5% |
Pertussis (whooping cough), bacterial |
Unvaccinated |
3.7% |
Spanish flu, 1918 |
Treated |
>2.5% |
Measles (rubeola) |
Unvaccinated |
~1-3% |
Hepatitis A (over 50 years old) |
Unvaccinated |
~1.8% |
Lassa fever, viral |
— |
~1% |
Mumps, encephalitis, virus |
Unvaccinated |
~1% |
COVID-19 coronavirus New England Journal Medicine |
Supportive (no vaccine) |
Like seasonal influenza 1/10th of 1% |
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