Severity of acute disease can be best analyzed by?: (A) Standardized moality ratio, (B) Cause specific death rate, (C) Case fatality rate, (D) Age specific death rate
Answer is C. Case fatality rate represents the killing power of a disease. Typically used for acute diseases like food poisoning, cholera, measles. it is simply the ratio of deaths to cases. ref: Park&;s 23rd edition pg 58.