Thanks, Bill Sardi.
COMPARISON COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS W/OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES
LIST OF HUMAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES / CASE FATALITY RATES
Source: WIKIPEDIA Courtesy of Knowledge of Health
FATAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE
TREATMENT
CASE FATALITY RATE
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
Anthony Fauci MD,
Director National Institute Infectious DiseasesSupportive (no vaccine)
Like seasonal influenza 1/10th of 1%