Though it is highly effective, some patients developed a rare and fatal infection known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
"Poor hand hygiene" by hospital staff may have been to blame for the death of a baby who contracted a fatal infection, an inquest has heard.
The bacteria which can cause fatal lung infection Legionnaires' disease, was discovered in the water system at St Botolph's Court a week ago.
Other impacts associated with inadequate sanitation include an estimated 260 million people infected with schistosomiasis, a potentially fatal parasitic infection spread through contact with contaminated water.
The infection is fatal in about one in four cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on its website.
Infection can be fatal or lead to complications such as blindness or epilepsy, and current drugs are often ineffective.
Legionnaire's disease is an acute, respiratory bacterial infection that can be fatal.
That's because rabies infection is almost always fatal without the treatment.
At high doses, these treatments cause side effects such as diarrhoea and infection, which can be fatal.
This parasite weakens the immune systems of bees, making the consequences of an infection more likely to be fatal.
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The word is going out that a lot of people need to get a pertussis booster shot Pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, is a bacterial infection that is very dangerous and sometimes fatal in young infants, whose immune systems are too immature to protect them.
The infection attacks and destroys healthy tissue and is fatal about 20% of the time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Influenza is basically an extreme upper respiratory infection, and, by itself, is rarely fatal.
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In some patients, long-term infection can cause liver cirrhosis, which can prove fatal.
Eventually, EB proves fatal, either through organ failure, secondary skin cancer or infection.
This is what happens in sepsis, when in response to a severe infection, the body goes into overdrive, with potentially fatal consequences.
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