Disability-adjusted life year for<unk>  per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004<unk>  cases reported to the World Health Organization between 1997 and 2006:<unk>  is fatal in between 5% and 10% of cases. In children under five years and adults over 40 years, the fatality rate may be as much as 20%. In 2013, it resulted in 3,300 deaths, down from 8,000 deaths in 1990. Better standards of living, mass immunization, improved diagnosis, prompt treatment, and more effective health care have led to a decrease in cases worldwide.
Diphtheria
Spanish flu
Swine influenza
Plague 
Anthrax
Periodic fever syndrome
Murine typhus
Influenza