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What is Which one of the following is a good index of the severity of an acute disease? and explain in detail?
Case fatality rate measures the killing power of a disease, for acute infectious diseases like food poisoning, cholera, measles.
It is simply the ratio (it is not  a RATE) of deaths to cases.