Question

The public health officer from long beach complains to you about the dreaded pacific pox. the health officer says, "if people catch the pox, they suddenly get the urge to dance in the sand and fall dead on the beach within the hour." there are no survivors to interview so you deduce:

Answer 1

The correct answer is that the case fatality rate of the Pacific Pox must be high.

A case fatality rate is the ratio of deaths due to a certain disease (throughout the duration of the disease in question). In this scenario, since there are no survivors left, the proportion of deaths among the people who had this disease is obviously rather high.