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In-hospital case-fatality rates within 30 days after admission for AMI, 2005 2.

Statistics: OECD Health at a Glance « ResourceShelf 2007

It triggered a near-pandemic, with 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths -- a case-fatality rate of 9.6% world-wide, according to the WHO.

Science Races to Parse New Virus 2009

Note this does not mean that 2.5-5% of the human population died; with 20% or more of the world population suffering from the disease to some extent, a case-fatality ratio this high would mean that about 0.5-1% ≈50 million of the whole population died.

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The indicators include five-year cancer relative survival rates, thirty-day case-fatality rates after acute myocardial infarction and stroke, breast cancer screening rates, and asthma mortality rates.

Krugman Comes Out, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In-hospital case-fatality rates within 30 days after admission for ischemic stroke, 2005 and earlier years

Statistics: OECD Health at a Glance « ResourceShelf 2007

In addition, zoonotic pathogens can cause high case-fatality rates and are difficult to vaccinate against, since the primary reservoir hosts are non-humans.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports 2008

When cholera occurs in an unprepared community, case-fatality rates may be as high as 50% -- usually because there are no facilities for treatment, or because treatment is given too late.

Chapter 2 2000

The case-fatality rate for patients developing haemorrhagic disease is high at approximately 50%.

Chapter 2 2000

In contrast, a well-organized response in a country with a well established diarrhoeal disease control programme can limit the case-fatality rate to less than 1%.

Chapter 2 2000

The classic cases here and now the stuff of the new generation of hi-tech horror films are the Ebola and Marburg viruses, which have recorded case-fatality rates of 25-90 percent in various outbreaks.

The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997