fatal
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The numbers were even higher for hospitalizations where the health effects were more serious or fatal.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
In Kent, thousands of students are being offered a second dose of the MenB vaccine following the fatal outbreak in in March.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
The Oslo patient, who had been living with HIV since 2006, was diagnosed with a fatal blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome in 2017.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Alzheimer’s is fatal and there is no cure.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
Victims of the flu often developed a secondary pneumonia caused by pneumococcus—an illness so rapid and fatal that doctors had termed it the “captain of the men of death.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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