These secure Web sites have played a pivotal role in beginning to understand the coronavirus that causes SARS, and in beginning to identify which patients are at the highest risk of dying from the pneumonia.

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Moreover, flu shots are highly effective at reducing the risk of people dying from the flu, according to Kenneth Bromberg, chairman of the department of pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

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From a Nash point of view, that makes perfect sense, as the elderly are at greatest risk of dying if they contract influenza.

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Women in the UK are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth than those in Slovakia, Montenegro and Lithuania, according to the statistics.

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Clinical trials are under way among pregnant women, who appear to be at heightened risk of dying from the disease.

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He said data showed that in families which had lost one child to cot death, subsequent babies were at an increased risk of dying from the same cause, or from a variety of natural causes, such as meningitis.

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