The American Cancer Society estimates that 32, 000 men died of the disease in 2010.
However, on Sunday the WHO said two sisters who died of the disease in Vietnam last month probably caught it from their brother, who also died.
The Geneva-based organization said Friday that 294 people have died of the disease and that a total 6, 072 cases had been reported between August and this Tuesday.
Punch a phrase like "breast cancer" into her database and the names of David Arquette and wife Courteney Cox will pop up--Arquette's mother died of the disease.
Five of the 11 people infected with inhalation anthrax in the U.S. in 2001 died of the disease, in spite of antibiotics and other therapy, the CDC said.
In 2010 there have been 910 cases of pertussis, the technical term for whooping cough, as of June 15, state health officials said, and five infants have died of the disease.
Bobby Moore's widow Stephanie, who set up a fund for bowel cancer research in memory of England's World Cup-winning captain, who died of the disease aged 51, said she hoped the campaign would save thousands of lives.
According to the AAP, 115 American children died of influenza-related disease in the 12 months ending in August.
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They found that 7.7% of those without diabetes or kidney disease died over the course of the decade-long study.
In IDEAL, only 3% of the patients in the trial died as a result of heart disease.
More than 90 people have died of H5N1 bird flu since the disease's resurgence in December 2003 - most of them in South-East Asia.
Lawyers Irwin Mitchell are taking legal action on behalf of the families of two men who died, as well as 16 other people who caught the disease.
One developed the lethal, inhaled version of the disease and died.
Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1, 066 needed hospital treatment - and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.
In the tropical forests of the island, just south of the equator, 37, 000 Japanese troops died from disease and starvation during the second world war.
More than 200, 000 have been killed in the fighting, while others have died from malnutrition and disease that have spread in the wake of the conflict.
Seven people have died from the disease, an increase of one from Sunday.
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Dr Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at the UCLA School of Medicine, died in 2004 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's Disease, also known as Motor Neurone Disease.
He died before I was born of lung disease due to the mustard gas.
Both Plutarch and Arrian believed that Alexander died of a disease, and Plutarch rather brusquely rejected the idea that he was poisoned.
The Centers for Disease Control says five people have died from infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a form of the bacteria that causes cholera.
Connie Buonomo said her husband Matthew, who died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, could barely breathe for the last 13 years of his life.
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Scientists found that more people died from diabetes, heart disease and cancer in parts of the world where consumption of sugary drinks is high.
Since January, more than 13, 000 people have died of complications from seasonal flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on the causes of death in the nation.
Overall, five people have died of inhalation anthrax and six others have survived a bout with the disease.
At that point the HRT-takers stopped taking hormones, and the researchers analyzed the results, finding that half as many women in the HRT group had had heart problems or died of heart disease than non-HRT takers.
He said 33 people had died from the flu-like disease in the first seven weeks of 2013 compared to 41 last year.
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So the medical examiner ruled that Khan had died of arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease -- which encompasses incidents like heart attacks, strokes and aortic ruptures -- and that his manner of death was natural, according to Cina.
His mother and sister had died of tuberculosis, among the many thousands of Irish who were victims of that disease.
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