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case fatality rate
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case fatality rate
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The proportion of individuals contracting a disease who die of that disease.


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Case fatality in patients with ISS scores of 1-9 are less than 1%; for those patients with ISS scores greater than 24, there is a 33% case fatality.
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Among the 18 cases of inhalation anthrax in the United States during the 20th century, the overall case fatality was greater than 75%.
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