Even if it does not die, the chance of it giving birth to healthy offspring is low.

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Any time a large number of people are given a vaccine, some of them will get sick and die just by chance.

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But there's a 50% chance one spouse will die before 78 and a 50% chance the second will hold on until almost 89, the Government Accountability Office calculates.

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If they could get the results in hours, he'd probably live--in a week, there is a good chance he could die.

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The rule of thumb is that 100 rems of exposure increases the chance you will die of cancer by 5% or so.

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There's a 25% chance that people will die in the ambulance and then on the operating table you might not survive it.

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God forbid you should die with a large IRA balance thereby denying the government a chance to tax your wealth twice more.

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It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.

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