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Please tell me what infectious disease kills the highest percentage of people who catch it?
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? maybe smallpox?: I am not sure but smallpox has to rank way up there with a survival rate of 10% or less. Thank goodness it has been eradicated (some labs may have it?) hopefully some of the infectious disease specialists will chime in with an accurate answer. I am quite curious now. By the way, ebola, plague.Sars, anthrax are high. The most deaths in the world each year from an infectious disease is tb.
Answered 5/28/2013
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