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. 2020 Nov 16;163:120469. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120469

Table 1.

Infections and deaths of significant virus outbreaks in the last 53 years.

Outbreaks Infections Deaths
Marberg (1967) 466 373
Ebola* (1976) 33,577 13,562
Hendra (1994) 7 4
H5N1 bird flu (1997) 861 455
Nipah (1998) 513 398
SARS (2002) 8096 774
H1N1⁎⁎ (2009) 762,630,000 284,500
MERS⁎⁎⁎ (2012) 2494 858
H7N9 bird flu (2013) 1568 616
COVID-19 ⁎⁎⁎⁎ (2020) 1,930,979 120,074

Notes:.

⁎

as of January 31, 2020;.

⁎⁎

between 2009 and 2010;.

⁎⁎⁎

as of November 2019;.

⁎⁎⁎⁎

as of April 2020.