The death count is tiny alongside the 36, 000 Americans killed each year by the flu, but SARS is just getting under way.
Official estimates of the death count from the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on Friday have remained around 1, 000, but reports suggest that the toll could climb much higher.
The death count for the Joplin tornado on May 22 is currently up to 123, making it the worst single storm since two that occurred on successive days in 1936, with 216 fatalities in Tupelo, Miss.
Before his death in 1917, Count von Zeppelin, inventor of the airship, was hailed as the greatest German of the 20th century.
How could one seriously count the cost of death and injury caused by road accidents, for example?
The campaign group, Iraq Body Count, said the civilian death toll by October 2007 was between 74, 000 and 81, 000, although it has warned many deaths may have gone unreported.
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The Iraq Body Count, which relies on published death accounts, figures between 130, 000 and 144, 000 killed.
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The other day I started thinking about certainties those things you can count on no matter what, like death and taxes (after all, Monday, April 18th was the deadline for paying our 2010 taxes).
The count did not include the most recently reported death in the United States.
Gosnell originally faced first-degree murder charges in the deaths of seven babies and a count of third-degree murder in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41.
Eleven face one count of third-degree felony hazing resulting in death.
Thanks to his support of the death penalty and apparently straightforward personal life, Mr Lazio can also count on the support of New York's small Conservative Party, which opposed Mr Giuliani, who offered neither.
The Crespi-Hicks Estate, commissioned by Italian Count Pio Crespi, was the last residential creation of architect Maurice Fatio before his death in 1943.
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When the Count arrives and sees what has happened, he gives orders for Manrico to be put to death.
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