A new method for monitoring and forecasting the case-fatality rate in ongoing epidemics and its evaluation using published data of SARS in 2003, H1N1 pandemic in 2009/2010, hand-foot-mouth disease in China in 2009/2010, and cholera in Haiti in 2010.

A new method for monitoring and forecasting the case-fatality rate in ongoing epidemics and its evaluation using published data of SARS in 2003, H1N1 pandemic in 2009/2010, hand-foot-mouth disease in China in 2009/2010, and cholera in Haiti in 2010.