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Friday, 8 March 2013

Top five most deadly diseases

Today we will be talking about the top five diseases with the highest case fatality rate meaning the percentage of people diagnosed that end up dying.


  1.    Nipah has a case fatality rate of around 50% it is named after a town Malaysia where it was discovered in 1999. this virus has killed around 106 people so far.
  2. H5N1 formerly known as bird flu has a case fatality rate of 54%. And cant be easily carried by humans.
  3. Marburg hemorrhagic fever has a case fatality rate of 80% in 1967 this disease killed 27% of scientists who contracted the disease from monkeys, and this disease has occasional out breaks in Africa
  4. Zebov has a case fatality rate of 83% Zebov has symptoms such as vomiting, fever and failure of blood vessels causing bleeding under the skin.
  5. Rabies this has a case fatality rate of 100% meaning everyone who shows symptoms will die but there have only been 10 recorded deaths from rabies each year in america the reason rabies hasn't brought humanity to its knees is because there is a cure for rabies and rabies has a incubation time of 2-3 months meaning you have plenty of time to get vaccinated.

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