Word: fatales
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...excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans and Chlamydia pneumoniae, both of which can cause fatal lung inflammations. But topping the list of possible culprits is a virus...
They can sound fairly impressive now, though trends based on small numbers are inherently fluky and dollar figures may depend on what point a bureaucracy's accountants want to make. In the 13 parks of the Rocky Mountain region, there were eight fatal climbing accidents and 63 rescues last year (total cost: $179,000) and six deaths and 40 rescues (cost: $247,000) the year before. In the Western region national parks, including Yosemite, there were no fatalities and 103 rescues last year, and one fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive...
Throughout the year, Medical School Professor of Genetics James F. Gusella and his colleagues at the MGH Molecular Neurogenetics Unit reported several "candidate" genes for the defect which causes Huntington's Disease, the usually fatal neurodegenerative disorder which killed folk singer Woody Guthrie...
Older men who have slow-growing prostate cancer can avoid the impotence and incontinence that often follow surgery by avoiding the surgery. Left untreated, the disease is fatal, but men over 70 or so will most likely die of something else first...
...Mack") Malloy might not be able to help them solve it. Seems that Bert Kamin, like his friend Mack a partner at Gage & Griswell, has disappeared, and so has about $5.6 million. The money was lifted from an account the firm had assembled to settle insurance claims against the fatal crash of a TransNational Air plane in 1985. Since TN is by far the firm's biggest and most lucrative account, the missing money could prove especially embarrassing; evidence of embezzlement might prompt the airline's executives to look elsewhere for legal help. So why doesn't Mack just find...