Still, the number of fatal cases as a result of fires is slowly decreasing in Russia.
The highest rate of fatal cases was reported in Dorset, with almost 52 women in every 100, 000 dying from the disease.
Despite the fact that Britons were far more likely to die from murder (let alone cholera) than from rabies, tales of fatal cases filled the newspapers during the 1830s.
But a second piece of research looked at 14 fatal cases and found that in five there was evidence of pre-existing pulmonary-embolic disease, and in four the fatal clot had formed before the flight.
The death of Emma Christoffersen in October 2000 - just hours after arriving at Heathrow from Australia - led to widespread publicity over other fatal DVT cases.
Experts say the effects are only more serious if the substance is ingested, when it can cause damage to lungs and the digestive system, and could prove fatal in some cases.
The same year its new Parkinson's disease drug was linked to three cases of fatal liver failure.
Up to a third of cases are fatal and those who survive may face memory loss, impaired cognition and motor difficulties (the virus affects the nervous system).
His colleagues had suffered "infinitely worse" problems which in some cases had been fatal, he added.
It can lead to muscle weakness, blindness, heart failure and in some cases can be fatal.
Measles can cause serious illness and can, in some cases, be fatal.
There is no treatment for measles and in very rare cases it can be fatal.
Even with appropriate treatment, inhalation anthrax is usually fatal in about 75 percent of cases, MayoClinic.com said.
The infection is fatal in about one in four cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its website.
The disease attacks and destroys healthy tissue and is fatal in about 20% of cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2010, there were 3.5 total recordable cases of non-fatal occupational injury and illness per 100 full-time workers, down from 5.0 less than a decade ago.
EHV-1 can be transmitted through the air from respiratory infection or by close contact between horses and although it can be treated, in some cases it can be fatal.
The trust said the Dr Foster independent investigation found that of 150 patient cases - not all fatal - coded as septicaemia, 76 were found not to meet national coding standards.
This may well have been what happened in three cases of non-fatal cerebral hemorrhage in New Zealand, who either consumed DMAA in products sold as party pills or in a powder mixed in a drink.
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They found that detecting and treating many early-stage breast cancers reduced the number of late-stage cancers and deaths only slightly, prompting them to conclude that much of the treatment was unnecessary in some cases because the cancers wouldn't have progressed, and in some cases because they were fatal despite being treated early.
None of the school's cases of swine flu -- also called H1N1 -- has proven fatal or resulted in a hospitalization, he said, and none of the reported cases has been confirmed.
This kind of anthrax is fatal in 25 percent to 60 percent of cases, the CDC said.
It said such circumstances would include cases of rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality or when a woman chooses not to continue with a pregnancy.
What happens once those vehicles hit the streets, however, is shaping up as a national tragedy, experts say, with thousands of Brazilians dying every year in auto accidents that in many cases shouldn't have proven fatal.
So far the effect of SARS on the UK has been limited to just three probable cases, none of which has proved fatal.
So far it has worked for the 0157 strain of E.coli, which causes some of the most severe cases of food poisoning - occasionally proving fatal if the victim is an infant, elderly or already weak.
About one-third of the 60 cases reported in the state since 1993 have been fatal, the department said.
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