Like any president of a large university, John Hennessy is subject to a relentless schedule of breakfasts, meetings, lunches, speeches, ceremonies, handshakes, dinners, and late-night calls alerting him to an injury or a fatality on campus.

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Of all the CO incidents recorded, none involving an alarm resulted in a fatality or serious injury.

BBC: Warning over rise in carbon monoxide fatalities

The inhalation is the most severe, in the past, thought to have 90% fatality, although in our cases here in this country, we've shown it to be 40% fatality, and that's more or less because of the advanced antibiotic therapy, and the ICU support that is much more advanced than it was when the statistics were first out.

CNN: "The Secret Life of Germs" author Philip Tierno

Dr. Eric Laroche, a World Health Organization official in Harare, said the outbreak has a high fatality rate because sufferers are either not able to reach health centers in time or that the health centers lack the capacity to treat the cases.

CNN: Mugabe 'needs to go,' U.S. says

According to the researchers, 20 percent of those taking either high dosages or several of the drugs at once died in a two-year period, an alarmingly high fatality rate.

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