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General Category => Health => Topic started by: special-k on March 24, 2013, 09:46:51 PM

Title: Medical Trivia
Post by: special-k on March 24, 2013, 09:46:51 PM

Recent forum discussion has led me to pose this question:


What virus, once symptoms are presenting, has the highest mortality rate?

Title: Re: Medical Trivia
Post by: Ghost on March 24, 2013, 09:49:34 PM

Rabies?

Pretty sure that's what I remember from some zombie documentary anyway :))

Title: Re: Medical Trivia
Post by: thatGuy on March 25, 2013, 01:20:59 AM

good answers.. good answers.

I'm gonna go with HIV/AIDs because my first guess is already taken.

Title: Re: Medical Trivia
Post by: special-k on March 26, 2013, 03:12:22 PM

*Bump*

Title: Re: Medical Trivia
Post by: crudos on March 26, 2013, 05:41:03 PM

Smallpox, though I also think Rabies is the correct answer.

Title: Re: Medical Trivia
Post by: JohnyMac on March 26, 2013, 05:43:28 PM

Once googled Rabies is #1. I didn't know that rabies is a virus.

My first guess (No cheating) would have been the Spanish Flu. I remember my grandmother talking about the influenza of 1918. She told me as a game, she and her friends use to sit on their front outside stoop and count the hearses going by.