This is a potentially deadly condition in which the individual chambers of a heart beat out of phase with each other.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

However, one virus which may cause a problem is West Nile Virus, a potentially deadly condition which peaks in the US in August and September.

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My ailment is just another ambient backdrop now, another machine falling apart with no parts to replace the scrapped ones, another grim dispatch from the quadrants of the deadly dull but not yet quite deadly enough condition our condition is in.

NEWYORKER: Lostronaut