It can refer to the fatality rate â the number of deaths per number of cases â or it can mean the number of deaths in total caused by a disease. What's more, diseases can take a different toll in different parts of the world. In low-and middle-income countries, only limited medical care may be available, if that. This will raise the fatality rate for many infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and infectious diarrhea.
Although you may still occasionally hear remarks such as âradon is a hoax!â or âsome radon is good for you,â there is no scientific doubt that exposure to high radon levels can cause lung cancer.lthough you may still occasionally hear remarks such as âradon is a hoax!â or âsome radon is good for you,â there is no scientific doubt that exposure to high radon levels can cause lung cancer.
It's been almost 10 years since doubts about the real dangers of radon gas began nagging Dr. William K. Grosh, then a family doctor in Akron. think it's a scare that has not been proven to that degree.. Turns out that Grosh-while perhaps in the minority-is not alone. Bernard Cohen, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, has been a doubting Thomas of the radon danger at lower levels of exposure for 20 years.