These deadly strains cause death in approximately half of the patients diagnosed with them.
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Certain types of bacteria when injected can be especially devastating and can even cause death.
One hundred rems can cause radiation sickness and 500 rems likely will cause death.
Mr Ndebele has called for reckless drivers who cause death to be charged with murder.
Every additional 15 minutes of daily exercise further reduced all-cause death rates by 4%.
Acute water shortages cause death through waterborne diseases, and dwindling water supplies reduce crop yields.
The result can be a sudden severe asthma attack that requires hospitalization and might even cause death.
It can blister a person's lungs if it is inhaled and can cause death in high concentrations.
Indeed it does seem fairly obvious that it was an attack deliberately planned to cause death and injury.
Another study from 2010 indicated that Prempro not only can cause cancer but leads to types of cancers more likely to cause death.
The Home Office is carrying out a review to see how it can strengthen the law on road traffic offences, particularly where offenders cause death or injury.
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On the other hand, a doctor who sedates his patient as far as coma in order to cause death by starvation is intending to end a life.
The new laws also prescribe the death penalty - which is carried out very rarely in India - in cases of rape that cause death or leave the victim in a vegetative state.
Because anorexia can cause death, that figure was used not long ago to support the wild claim that 150, 000 American women die of anorexia every year (the correct figure is fewer than 80).
On top of the effects of the warming trend come more frequent and extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and storms which directly cause death and injury and open the door to other serious health problems, according to WWF.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists drowning as the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the fifth leading cause of death for Americans of all ages.
Her death certificate listed the cause of death as unknown, because Janelle was never able to afford a proper diagnosis, a diagnosis that with care might have saved her life.
Kelly had a significant degree of coronary artery disease and that this may have played some small part in the speed of death but not a major cause of death, he added.
Mr Morris said the cause of death was suffocation with a secondary cause of an overdose with painkillers.
He said arrangements must be made to release the body and once that happens a death certificate will be filed and the cause of death made public.
Two weeks after Arafat's death, his nephew said medical records showed no cause of death.
"That ... led us to issue an amended death certificate that (established) cyanide toxicity as the cause of death, and the manner of death as homicide, " Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Steve Cina said Monday.
An inquest into his death heard a post-mortem examination had yet to establish a cause of death.
Mr Acton Davis said, after examining death certificates, the inquiry would look to establish the circumstances and cause of death of 28 people.
Cause of death was available for 2, 762 patients, with infection being the leading cause, followed by cardiovascular disease.
After noticing the death certificate of his great-great-great-grandmother had omitted a cause of death, he made inquiries which revealed she was killed by "injuries inflicted on the head by someone unknown".
An inquest into his death opened in Plymouth last week where coroner Andrew Cox recorded drowning as the provisional cause of death following a post-mortem examination.
COMMANDED, at some hour after 6:00 p.m. on the 17th day of February, 2004, at the Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas, to carry out this sentence of death by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause the death of said Cameron Todd Willingham.
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