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> We haven't seen any major illness spread with a fatality rate of >1% since introducing clean drinking water & having antibiotics. HIV is what obviously come
by whimsicalism 3y ago
> We haven't seen any major illness spread with a fatality rate of >1% since introducing clean drinking water & having antibiotics.
HIV is what obviously comes to mind.
- lettergram 3y agoHIV doesn’t kill people, secondary infections do after either the virus or drugs administered kill the person. Regardless, in a given year, less than 1% of people with HIV cited as the underlying cause listed die, far less. Currently, it’s 2/100,000 cases. At its peak, it was 16/100,000 https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/slidesets/cdc-hiv-surveillance-mortality-2019.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/slidesets/cdc-hiv-survei...
- whimsicalism 3y agoRight, now that we have HAART. Before treatment was developed, it killed a majority of those infected. The secondary infection thing is a technicality, the mechanism via which someone who has HIV is killed. But it’s not really a misnomer to say the disease is deadly.
- whimsicalism 3y ago> Currently, it’s 2/100,000 cases. At its peak, it was 16/100,000 You are misreading the charts you are citing btw, your chart shows close to 100% fatality rate, 16 deaths per 100,000 people (with and without HIV)