• Question: what is the most deadly disease in the world that you know of?

    Asked by buss449bee on 2 Feb 2022.
    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 2 Feb 2022:

      Hi 🙂 ,

      In terms of viruses Ebola and Hemorrhagic Fever Virus are very deadly with 60-80% mortality rate. The highest one however would be Rabies.. that virus kills 100% of people who get bitten by animals with rabies. However we have a great vaccine against it and you will not even get sick if you are bitten but had the shot. The great thing is the vaccine even still works if you get it after you were bitten.

      The deadliest virus in terms of how many people were killed was Smallpox which is estimated to have killed over 500 million people worldwide. But that one is eradicated now thanks to a vaccine 😉

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