countable noun. You can refer to something that causes death or is likely to cause death as a killer. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
The world's biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world's total deaths.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. This is the case in the U.S. and worldwide. More than half of all people who die due to heart disease are men. Medical professionals use the term heart disease to describe several conditions.
The world's deadliest infections, including Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS, have been considered as the "Big Three" infectious diseases (BTIDs).
Cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death globally. In the map we see death rates from cardiovascular diseases across the world.
cancer. dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease. stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
Rabies. Rabies, one of the oldest known infectious diseases, is nearly 100% fatal and continues to cause tens of thousands of human deaths globally (1).
Of great importance to public and child health are the vaccines against the so-called six killer diseases of childhood-measles, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis and poliomyelitis.
It is called the “silent killer” because it is colorless, odorless, tasteless and non- irritating. If the early signs of CO poisoning are ignored, a person may lose consciousness and be unable to escape the danger. More people die from carbon monoxide exposure than any other kind of poisoning.
Heart disease, hypertension and diabetes are major silent killer diseases. There are other lesser known silent diseases that include primary amyloidosis, renal cell cancer, pancreatic cancer, hepatitis B or C infection to name a few. Heart disease is the number one silent killer disease.
JUPITER, Fla. — Luiz Pedro Carvalho, Ph. D., is on a quest to find new medicines for treatment-resistant diseases, including tuberculosis, which is again the world's deadliest infectious disease, after briefly falling behind COVID-19.
Eradicated diseases
So far, only two diseases have been successfully eradicated—one specifically affecting humans (smallpox) and one affecting cattle (rinderpest).
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, with about 30 percent of deaths attributable mainly to cardiovascular disease. By the year 2030, an estimated 23 million people a year will die from cardiovascular disease.
“We generally say: Several thousand diseases affect humans of which only about 500 have any U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment,” said Cindy McConnell, a spokeswoman at NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
Cancer. Cancer refers to the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. This can affect almost any organ or tissue including lungs, breast, colon, skin and ovaries. Due to the complexity of the disease and the variety of forms it can take, developing a cure has proven difficult.
Most sudden deaths are due to heart diseases, especially sudden cardiac death. Some sudden deaths are caused by epilepsy or other conditions. A typical classification subdivides sudden deaths into arrhythmic, circulatory, and non-cardiac deaths.
Congenital deafness. Cystic fibrosis. Beta thalassemia. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
Asymptomatic until symptomatic – silent diseases
These include (but are not limited to): tuberculosis, breast cancer, endometriosis, HIV/AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, chlamydia, hypertension, common colds/flu, and type-2 diabetes mellitus.
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people in its 12,000 year existence.