Word: fatales
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...Centers for Disease Control has traced 247 cases of measles in 10 states to a single skier who visited a Colorado resort last spring. Most of the victims of this sometimes fatal disease were unvaccinated high school and college students...
...England Journal of Medicine reported that the children of Cincinnati suffered an epidemic of pertussis (whooping cough) last year. There were 352 cases (none fatal), compared with 542 cases in the 13 years from 1979 to 1992. The alarming part was that most of the children had been properly vaccinated, suggesting that an unusually hardy strain of the pertussis bacterium might be emerging. Another disturbing statistic: there were more than 6,500 cases nationwide, the largest number in more than 26 years...
...reason one elderly man died. And just a few weeks ago, 1,200 disgruntled passengers were evacuated from the ocean liner Horizon in Bermuda because of the threat of Legionnaires' disease. Among customers on previous Horizon voyages this summer, there have been 11 confirmed cases of the potentially fatal pneumonia-like illness and 24 suspected cases. At least one victim died...
...lives. The jetliner en route from Chicago to Pittsburgh crashed at 7:15 P.M. yesterday. The Boeing 737 was approaching the airport to land when an explosion occurred and the craft disintegrated, according to witnesses. Another US Air flight crashed in Charlotte, N.C., last month, one of five fatal crashes the airline has experienced in the past half-decade. President Clinton offered condolences to the families of those aboard the flight...
...researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was quarantined and put under treatment for a potentially fatal infection he contracted after a lab mishap exposed him to a rare virus he was studying. To avert the spread of the microbe known as Sabia virus, health officials are keeping under observation at least two dozen people in Connecticut and Massachusetts with whom the unidentified researcher had contact after the accident...