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fatal

[feyt-l] / ˈfeɪt l /




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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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