AS FAR AS RESEARCH LEADS YOU WHAT IS THE MOST DEADLY DISEASE?
2006-06-23 03:29:11 · 5 answers · asked by ▐▀▀▼▀▀▌ *~D-Girl~* ▐▄▄▲▄▄▌ 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
It depends on how you define "deadly". If you use the definition "most likely to cause death once contracted" it would have to be rabies. Rabies is, as yet, uncurable once contracted and to date only one person (that I know of in the literature) has been described as surviving a full-blown rabies attack. Once a person is bitten, of course, post-exposure vaccination can prevent it from setting in.
In terms of transmissibility and having cause a large number of deaths historically, pretenders to that claim would include the bubonic plague and influenza. The biggest killer worldwide in this day and age is, as far as I know, cardiovascular disease.
2006-06-24 02:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by S_R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should check out the CDC website. www.cdc.gov
They will have stats for lots of diseases. I know that in the US, heart disease is the biggest killer of women. More than cancer and everything else combined, isnt that scary?
2006-06-23 04:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by PiccChick12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not a doctor but i would answer cancer!! seems there is no cure yet. but hopefully some day lukema, and other disease will find there way gone from our lifes. that and aids, hepitities.
2006-06-23 03:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by brandifly69 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a doctor but I would guess either bird flu food poisoning or obesity.
2006-06-23 03:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by weatherkari 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDS.
2006-06-24 10:35:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋