DISEASE FATALITY RATES
Rates are expressed in percentages
Ebola 36 to 88
Smallpox 30
Gastrointestinal anthrax 25 to 60
Cutaneous anthrax 20
Dengue hemorrhagic fever 20
Yellow fever 20
Bubonic plague 15.4
SARS 15
Meningoccal disease* 12
West Nile virus 12
Tetanus 11
Diphtheria 10
Typhoid fever 10
Rocky Mountain spotted fever 5.2
Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, state and national public health departments, university research centers
* Figure is for U.S. cases only
Originally posted by Black LungThat makes the plague at the present time more deadly than SARS? The whole SARS thing has been scaled up to much if you ask me. In a paper I read it said it is more likely to die falling down the stairs than by SARS.
DISEASE FATALITY RATES
Rates are expressed in percentages
Ebola 36 to 88
Smallpox 30
Gastrointestinal anthrax 25 to 60
Cutaneous anthrax 20
Dengue hemorrhagic fever 20
Yellow fever 20
Bubonic plague 15.4
SARS 15
Meningoccal disease* 12
West Nile virus 12
Tetanus 11
Diphtheria 10
Typhoid fever 10
Rocky Mountain spotted fever ...[text shortened]... ional public health departments, university research centers
* Figure is for U.S. cases only
Originally posted by kirksey957But Lung Cancer is preventible (usely, unless you live in a high polluted area) If you dont smoke then you wont get it, I dont see why people pay lots of money a year on something that slowly kills them.
It is an interesting question that begs us to have some perspective about SARS. In my community, there will be more lung cancer deaths this year than SARS. Lung cancer is about 98% fatal. But it is so common, it doesn't get the "glamour" of SARS. Kirk
Originally posted by UncleAdamwhile that maybe true Adam those people are your closest friends and relatives. Some of them have quit smoking but gotten lung cancer anyways. Not to lecture you or anyone else here but this next sentence is said kindly...What do you tell your mother, father who has lung cancer and is dying? Right then and there they want your love and peace and understanding not to be told they shouldn't have smoked. They already have realized that fact too late.😞
But Lung Cancer is preventible (usely, unless you live in a high polluted area) If you dont smoke then you wont get it, I dont see why people pay lots of money a year on something that slowly kills them.
Originally posted by FireNRosesyes, you should always give your love and suport in difficlte times.
while that maybe true Adam those people are your closest friends and relatives. Some of them have quit smoking but gotten lung cancer anyways. Not to lecture you or anyone else here but this next sentence is said kindly...What do you tell your mother, father who has lung cancer and is dying? Right then and there they want your love and peace and understan ...[text shortened]... ing not to be told they shouldn't have smoked. They already have realized that fact too late.😞
but I think that people should do there best to get there freinds and reltives to realize that what they are doing will kill them and do there best to get them to stop.
Originally posted by UncleAdamNot only what they are doing to the people around them. I caught Broncitis (I think) and I was on medcine for months and I couldn't do much because my throat had swollen up and I got out of breath very quickly. Even by going upstairs or something. All because my mum and dad smoke. 🙁
yes, you should always give your love and suport in difficlte times.
but I think that people should do there best to get there freinds and reltives to realize that what they are doing will kill them and do there best to get them to stop.
Originally posted by UncleAdamCareful what you say (not meaning to sound aggressive). Many people beleive that you can only get lung cancer if you smoke or have been exposed to heavy smoke/polution (I know that's not what you were saying). My cousin died of lung cancer. He never smoked, lived in the countryside of northen Scotland well away from most inner city polution. He was 5.
But Lung Cancer is preventible (usely, unless you live in a high polluted area) If you dont smoke then you wont get it, I dont see why people pay lots of money a year on something that slowly kills them.
There are many diseases that people assosiate with common causes. Most people don't believe me when I say I have arthritus, albeit mild (so far), because I'm under 30. You can be born with it, but because people assosiate it with age they don't believe it is possible.
15% is high enough. That's more than 1 in 7 of your friends and family (if SARS happened to spread that widely). Many of the survivors would spend time in intensive care.
What's making SARS a minor risk to those of us outside east Asia is that it's not widespread here. All things considered, I'd prefer to have scare stories and government over-reaction than to be complacent and let the disease spread.
Mick
SARS... When i was growing up, i remember millions of people dying each "flu season" from what we called "hong kong flu" or "the China flu". (as a matter of fact, i still have the "weakly reader" about it from 1957) Some years were worse than others, but the thing it had in common with SARS was "flu like symptoms caused by viral invection and death caused from acute resporatory failure". It mutated each year so that there was never a specific treatment. Sounds like the same thing as SARS. I might be wrong though. Don't know enough about medicine to know. I am enough of a cynic to think maybe there is more money and/or power to various agencies if we rename an old classic and push it as "the godzilla of all diseases"?
My sister died of lung cancer at age 55. She never smoked either. I had saurcoma cancer when i was 12. Took two operations to remove the tumors in my back around the spine. I received experimental radiation treatment in Boise Idaho when i was 4 years old for severe acute psoriasis. I think that is what gave me the cancer. Or maybe it was playing in the pitchblend rocks in Cobalt Idaho when i was a baby. They are highly radio-active, but nobody knew they might be dangerous in 1950.