Word: lethally
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...last time a new influenza virus reached pandemic levels was in 1968, but the episode was not significantly deadlier than a typical bad flu season. Few people who lived through it even knew it occurred. Still, it killed 34,000 Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at a time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F. Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. The difference...
...sick enough to come to the attention of health authorities, and at least 60 of them have died. So far, the vast majority have been infected through close contact with birds; human-to-human infection is still extremely rare. What gives health authorities nightmares is the possibility that the lethal H5N1 could mutate into a virus that is easily passed among humans...
...field of mines. The soldiers haul themselves out of the burning vehicle and stagger to the nearest humvee. Sergeant Jeremy Gates, 25, grabs a fire extinguisher to try dousing the flames before the 900 rounds of ammunition inside the humvee start cooking. It's of little use. Within seconds, lethal fireworks are rocketing everywhere like miniature suns, and Turner and his men run for cover...
...wife. But the USAR teams are from everywhere but here, and they can't guess who needs help in rural Louisiana. So unless they're tasked to tackle an specific, known emergency, a team will wait for orders in the morning-when, by daylight, they can better negotiate potentially lethal downed power lines, for example. A USAR motto, says Pat Aungst, a structural engineer on the team-and a descendant of Woodrow Wilson and George Patton-is, "We shall create no new victims...
...shop being maintained than it ever did in orbit. What's more, the configuration of such a machine-with the rockets strapped directly to the sides of the crew vehicle-puts fuel, debris and humans in awfully close proximity. Fourteen people have died as a result of that lethal propinquity...