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Copied from CNN:
The World Health Organization has said the world should soon be free of the SARS virus but warned the disease could resurface in China again next winter.
DISEASE FATALITY RATES
Rates are expressed in percentages
Ebola 36 to 88
Smallpox 30
Gastrointestinal anthrax 25 to 60
Cutaneous anthrax 20
Dengue hemorrhagic fever 20
Yellow fever 20
Bubonic plague 15.4
SARS 15
Meningoccal disease* 12
West Nile virus 12
Tetanus 11
Diptheria 10
Typhoid fever 10
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 5.2
SOURCES: CDC,WHO, state and national public health departments, university research centers
* Figure is for U.S. cases only
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