In the United States, the leading causes of death in adults include heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, cerebrovascular disease, and Alzheimer's disease. This article will list the five diseases that cause the most deaths in the U.S., explaining their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Life threatening disease is the diseases which can leads to death of patient. These diseases are very dangerous disease such as cancer, HIV, Heart diseases etc. Mostly chronic diseases are life threatening diseases.
Rare diseases have different definitions regarding their prevalence: around <1/1650 affected individuals in the US (<200,000 Americans) (Herder, 2017) and <1/2000 in Europe (Ferreira 2019). Extremely rare diseases are sometimes referred to as ultra-rare with a prevalence of <1/50,000 (Hughes et al., 2005).
In the U.S., for example, rare disease is typically defined as any disease affecting less than 200,000 people, or around one in every 1,500 Americans. The European Union, however, defines a rare disease as a rare or debilitating condition affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people.
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).
Leprosy (or Hansen's disease) is considered as one of the oldest infectious diseases ever known in human history: it has been the scourge of humanity since antiquity.
The Lethal Six (airway obstruction, tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, open pneumothorax, massive hemothorax, and flail chest) are immediate, life-threatening injuries that require evaluation and treatment during primary survey.
What are 4 immediately life threatening conditions?
Head or spine injury. Severe or persistent vomiting. Sudden injury due to a motor vehicle accident, burns or smoke inhalation, near drowning, a deep or large wound, or other injuries. Sudden, severe pain anywhere in the body.
There's still a small chance occasional cases of Ebola may occur in Africa as the virus is present in several countries there, but the risk for people travelling to Africa is minimal.
There's no cure for Ebola, though researchers are working on it. There are two drug treatments which have been approved for treating Ebola. Inmazeb is a mixture of three monoclonal antibodies (atoltivimab, maftivimab, and odesivimab-ebgn). Ansuvimab-zykl (Ebanga) is a monoclonal antibody given as an injection.
Since EVD was first characterized in 1976, there have been 38 country-specific outbreaks, including the outbreak in the DRC. The total estimated EVD deaths from 1976 to 2020 is 15,266. The median number of deaths for all 38 outbreaks is 29 with a range of 0 to 4,809 (Table 1).
The anatomical disease section includes 18 major categories with more than 26,000 diseases representing all areas of the body, including blood, bone, immune, muscle, and reproductive diseases.
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.
