ETA's killing rate has fallen to a dozen victims so far this year (though up from five last year) from an annual average of 22 over the past three decades.
The rate of killing is now roughly ten times greater than in Afghanistan.
Unheard of by most people, it is also the pathogen with the highest death rate, killing more than 500 Americans a year.
Accepting the figure for the success rate in killing militants nevertheless means that fully 500 or so Pakistani civilians have been killed since 2004.
But as the rate of killing remains more or less constant, the insurgents have probably merely become more skilled at laying other kinds of bomb.
Yet prevention experts say many therapists lack specialized training in how to deal with survivors and balk at treating them because their above-average rate of eventually killing themselves prompts fear of malpractice suits by their families.
But at nowhere near the rate that it's killing them off at least for the foreseeable future.
The central bank doubled its main interest rate, but at the cost of killing consumer demand.
The Rangers' penalty-killing unit, which had an 80% success rate heading into the game, collapsed under the weight of seven penalties.
The Rwandan Interahamwe may still be at large, killing people in the hills, but they do not rate high in the townspeople's priorities.
Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, according to the UN, with much of the killing linked to drug-trafficking.
There are no accurate statistics, but many wildlife experts rate the hippo as the most lethal animal in Africa, killing more people each year than the more commonly feared lions, crocodiles, and elephants.
The killing follows warnings last year from conservation groups that elephants were being slaughtered in Africa at an alarming rate to feed demand for ivory from increasingly affluent Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand.
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