Even though raptor fatality rates appear to be relatively low in comparison to other groups such as passerines (e.g., Aumüller et al. 2011), they are considered to be among the most vulnerable species groups in the context of wind energy.
The case fatality rate in tuberculosis appears to be lower in Jews than in others, for example, and gonorrhea seems to be a less serious disease in blacks than in whites.
Moreover, the lower fatality rate in hamsters appears to more accurately reflect the fatality rate associated with human HPS.
Studies of the genetic changes that make the H5N1 virus more transmissible in mammals including the two papers now under review by Nature and Science are "in a category of their own," Keim says, because of the pandemic risk and H5N1's fatality rate in humans, which appears to be very high.
Utilizing published observational reports of patients with confirmed 2009 H1N1 infection and those admitted into intensive care units worldwide, the incidence, severity and case fatality rates following infection appear to differ between males and females, but often are age-dependent and vary between countries.
By contrast, severe neutropenia and vancomycin resistance itself did not appear to affect the fatality rate.
This would mean the fatality rate is not as high as it now appears to be.
Heat stroke cases had a high ED case fatality rate, and risk of death in the ED appears highest in the young, the poor, males, and Midwesterners.
The cholera epidemic has killed at least 292 people and sickened more than 4,100, but its spread has slowed and treatment and prevention efforts appear to have reduced the fatality rate.
