H5 avian flu strains have occasionally spread to humans, with 50% mortality (death rate) and severe pneumonia, but human-to-human spread has been highly limited. What Is Swine Flu, and Why Is It Important? Similar to avian flu viruses, there are influenza A strains that typically infect pi...
Many readers have been confused (and unnecessarily frightened) by the difference between the terms "morbidity rate" and "mortality rate." The morbidity rate describes the percentage of animals that will contract the disease after being exposed to the virus, but, despite its name, the term has n...
Number of Infected: >6,000,000 Americans (By Mortality Rate) Number of Deaths: 33,800 Americans What Made It So Deadly: Although this strain was indeed deadly, it was more widespread and infectious than it was fatal. The flu strain evolved from the widespread 1957 strain of avian flu, H2...
as the strain had never before caused disease in humans. To date, there have been more than 300 clinical cases of H7N9 with a 33 percent mortality rate. This year, another strain known to infect birds, H10N8, has caused human
Excess mortality rate during influenza season was calculated as the percentage difference between Q4/Q1 and preceding third quarter (Q3) mortality rates. We adopted the Goldstein index (ILI rate 脳 PP) as an indicator of IA. Time series analyses, Pearson correlation coefficients (r) and linear ...
which did not end up meeting the inclusion criteria for the full season analysis. Analogous declines were also observed for COVID-19 case forecasts20and mortality forecasts across different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic14, where forecasts systematically underpredicted during periods of increase and ...
The mortality rate reached up to 0.1 % due to the death of 20 % of infected people [8, 10]. Most of the pandemic influenza deaths (99 %) occurred in the people under the age of 65 years [11], while normal influenza is more deadly to the very young (under 2 years of age) and...
Besides its drawbacks, using all-cause excess mortality is probably the best way to measure the severity of the pandemic across countries as it is highly comparable. Deaths are rather accurately measured in most countries and using all-cause excess mortality is then less prone to measurement error...
Brain injury is the main cause of high mortality and disability after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from sudden cardiac arrest (CA). The transient receptor potential M4 (TRPM4) channel is a novel target for ameliorating blood–brain barr
21 in the CDC publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The overall flu-related hospitalization rate in the United States is 41.9 cases per 100,000 people, which is similar to what has been seen at this time during recent seasons, the CDC reported. The percentage of deaths attributed...