This stark contrast with other diseases underscores the unprecedented global impact of the pandemic. Additionally, acute hepatitis had the second highest age-standardized incidence rate at 3411.5 (95% UI: 3201.8, 3631.3) per 100,000 population, and HIV/AIDS had the second highest age-standardized ...
This stark contrast with other diseases underscores the unprecedented global impact of the pandemic. Additionally, acute hepatitis had the second highest age-standardized incidence rate at 3411.5 (95% UI: 3201.8, 3631.3) per 100,000 population, and HIV/AIDS had the second highest age-standardized ...
Common symptoms of SARS included fever, cough, dyspnea, and occasionally watery diarrhea.2Of infected patients, 20% to 30% required mechanical ventilation and 10% died, with higher fatality rates in older patients and those with medical comorbidities. Human-to-human transmission was documented, most...
reduction in CHB prevalence.53The highest CHB prevalence rates occur in the Western Pacific region (5.26%) and Africa (8.83%), with the disease burden in West and Central Africa accounting for 82.8% and 17.2%, respectively.54,55The countries most afflicted by CHB are China, India, and Niger...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused by HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is a malignant infectious disease with a very high fatality rate. The HIV virus invades the human body and can destroy the human immune system, causing the infected person to gradually lose the abil...
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2015, being the country reporting the highest number of cases in the world [36]. It has been proposed that the virus might have been introduced in 2014 during the World Cup [89]. The virus was proved to be associated with birth defects such as microcephaly- Guillain–Barré syndrome [6]...
spreading from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and declared a WHO Public Health Emergency of International Concern on August 8, 2014.168,169,170This outbreak resulted in more than 28,600 cases and 11,325 deaths, with an estimated adjusted case fatality ratio of nearly 83%.171,172While chi...
dramatic increase compared to previous years (4.9 cases vs 2.5 cases per 1000 workers in March 2020 vs. 2017, 2018, and 2019) [41,54,65,83]. All activity sectors were impacted, with the highest rate of absenteeism observed among workers in the healthcare, services, production, and ...
Asian American individuals had the highest risk of intensive care unit admission (RR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.60-2.34, P < .001). The area deprivation index was associated with mortality rates in Asian American and Hispanic individuals (P < .001). Decreased access to clinical care was ...