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Infectious Diseases' Low Fatality

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Infectious diseases

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Do any infectious diseases have a 100% fatality rate?

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Infectious diseases make up three of the ten top 10 causes of death in the World Health Organization's top 10 .

Despite these high numbers, diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis don't kill the majority of people they affect.

Some of these diseases are always or nearly always deadly, while others just have very high fatality rates.

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informal

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English

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not hateful

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long-living

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https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/prion-disease/#causes https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/treatment/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/variant-creutzfeldt-jakob/about/https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001379.htm https://www.cdc.gov/prions/about/index.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128187050000066#:~:text=Only%20a%20few%20abundant%20hosts,(dead%2Dend)%20hosts.https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1921698 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death https://memory.ucsf.edu/genetics/familial-prion-disease https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/who-we-are/our-people/amesh-adalja-md-fidsa https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/cases

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medlineplus.gov data.who.int www.cdc.gov www.who.int www.sciencedirect.com faculty.txst.edu memory.ucsf.edu centerforhealthsecurity.org

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