Sepsis has a mortality rate of 30percentto50percentcent.
Mers has a mortality rate of 38percentt and was first observed in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
Médecins sans Frontières, which does not use aggressive interventions, has a mortality rate of between500% and 60% at its centres.
Colonoscopy, a procedure that typically takes place outside a hospital (or surgical center) setting, has a mortality rate 10 times higher than an abortion.
Rabies kills more than fifty thousand people each year; if left untreated, it has a mortality rate approaching a hundred per cent.
Instead the virus, which has a mortality rate of 50%, found a dangerous, common ground in urban centres from Liberia's coastal capital of Monrovia to Freetown in Sierra Leone.
As it progresses, it can cause pneumonia and kidney failure and has a mortality rate of around 38 per cent, according the WHO.
"We have to be very cautious," he said, noting that the H5N1 virus has a mortality rate approaching 60 percent in humans.
Avian flu has caught the imagination because of its high pathogenicity – it has a mortality rate in humans of over 50 per cent [there have been 436 cases and 232 deaths in humans worldwide].
The virus causes swelling of the brain and has a mortality rate of about 35percentt in the people who contract it; about half of those who survive have neurological damage, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This serious infection requires urgent drainage and has a mortality rate approaching 20%%.
