Submitted by stupidrobots t3_1175z6i in askscience
hogey74 t1_j9cz7tn wrote
This trait isn't unique and your understanding of how that list of diseases "seem" isn't realistic. Rabies is the only one with a pretty universal outcome: it's basically 100 percent deadly once it's got a decent foothold in you. The others on your list have a wide spread of outcomes and experiences. The flu kills about 150 people per 100,000 infections. By comparison covid has been killing between 100 and 5,000 per 100,000 infections. Some people with the flu shrug it off, others are permanently injured by it's effects or are killed.
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