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...fatal? Usually not, although young animals may die as a result of secondary infections, exposure and malnutrition...
...scourge so far is a minor nuisance compared to the country's last big outbreak in 1967, which took five months to control and led to the killing of 440,000 animals. Or that foot-and-mouth disease, unlike bse, poses no serious danger to humans and isn't fatal even to animals. Or that the epidemic's overall economic impact would likely remain limited: agriculture comprises such a small slice of modern economies that a month-long outbreak in the U.K. would slow this year's growth by just...
...hundred meters up the road, opposite the shiny new Ecce Homo Catholic church is another remainder of that night's fatal frenzy: a van reduced by fire to a charred frame on wheels. Inside, on seat springs that have had the cushion burned away, a blackened, desiccated corpse arches in agony. Nine people died in the vehicle, villagers say. And there were other victims, whispers Diran, who is squatting by the soccer pitch, puffing on a cigarette. "I don't know how many were chased into the forest and killed." He shrugs and gestures up the road in its direction...
...while the fact that this technician didn't report that he thought the Ehime Maru was nearby is certainly significant, it wasn't the fatal error that caused the collision...
...Waller: He can't. You're not going to find one fatal error that caused the submarine to collide with that fishing boat. This accident wasn't caused by one person or one single event. As with most disastrous submarine accidents, this was a result of a combination of dozens of events...