People with serious illnesses (and substance use disorders have a high mortality rate) are vulnerable.
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Part of the reason for the high mortality rate is that lung cancer is notoriously difficult to identify early.
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Fish health inspectors visited Seasalter Shellfish in the town after the producer reported a high mortality rate in its Pacific oyster stocks.
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The World Health Organization has recorded 355 humans deaths from H5N1 out of 602 cases, although some research has questioned this high mortality rate.
There is a high mortality rate -- with an average life span of only 47 -- minimal infrastructure and limited tools for economic development.
Particularly worrying for the tourist industry is Pattaya's high mortality rate.
The Dr Foster Hospital Guide found the Nottinghamshire trust had a high mortality rate in one of four measures used by the private research group.
It reported that they were more likely to be poor and that their infant mortality rate was half as high again as that of the rest of the population.
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Mid-nineteenth-century Americans endured a high rate of infant mortality but expected that most individuals who reached young adulthood would survive at least into middle age.
Some conditions associated with congenital heart defects, such as pulmonary hypertension, come with a mortality rate for the mother or infant as high as 50%, Dr. Franklin says.
Despite the trappings of Westernization in major cities, a literacy rate of just 61 percent and high infant mortality rates betray the reality of India's status as an emerging nation.
The report didn't get much play in the press, and the decline in mortality has been overshadowed by the still too-high rate of deaths in hospitals from infections contracted in the hospital.
The report didn't get much play in the press, and the decline in mortality has been overshadowed by the still-too-high rate of deaths in hospitals from infections contracted in the hospital.
Because of illiteracy, women face major socioeconomic challenges including high risks with regard to reproductive health with reports suggesting that the maternal mortality rate in the country is among the highest in the world.
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