One in particular caught my eye: 0.4 percent, the “current best estimate” of the disease’s “case fatality rate.” The document also said that 35 percent of infections are asymptomatic ...

Officials are reporting a surge in yellow fever mortality throughout South America. What's happening? While the ...

Measles would normally be expected to have a fatality rate of about one to three deaths out of every 1,000 children infected, the CDC says, so the number of deaths this year suggests there may be far ...

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During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the ...

Our World in Data also publishes data on COVID-19 fatality rates, in which low-income countries also experience worse outcomes. As of Nov. 6, the cumulative case fatality rate was 2.12% in low ...

Health Secretary Ted Herbosa said Wednesday that the Philippines may face a dengue outbreak this year as cases continue to increase even by as much as 78% than last year.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has recorded 674 confirmed cases of Lassa fever and 127 deaths in 14 weeks. This was disclosed in the centre's latest situation report, ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has said that between January and March, Nigeria recorded 3,465 suspected cases of Lassa fever across 91 local government areas in 33 ...