Bird flu's true death rate now seems lower than predicted From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 16, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Lawrence K. Altman
International Herald Tribune
03-16-2005
While early reports of the deadliness of human avian influenza suggested that about 90 percent of the victims died, there are growing signs that the disease's true death rate is much lower although still high enough to kill many millions of people if the worst fears about its spread come to fruition. Few acute infectious diseases have death rates exceeding 5 percent to 10 percent. Exceptions are rabies, which is nearly always fatal, and Ebola and Lassa fever, with reported death rates ranging from 25 percent to 90 percent. The death ...

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