Comparative Threat to Life of Various Infectious Diseases

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 Diseases

Supportive (no vaccine)

Like seasonal influenza 1/10th of 1%

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