Five of the thirty-four patientsuffereded complications, none of which were fatal, and included minor bleeding only (requiring no treatment).
Department for Transport (DfT) figures show that a driver impaired or distracted by their phone was a contributory factor in 492 accidents in Britain in 2014, including 21 that were fatal and 84 classed as serious.
Symptoms of E. coli poisoning, which can be fatal, include fever, dehydration and diarrhea.
Eleven CVD events were fatal and 29 were non-fatal events leading to hospital admission, including 2 fatal and 3 non-fatal cases of acute myocardial infarction, 3 non-fatal strokes, 1 fatal and 19 non-fatal cases of ischaemic cardiovascular disease, 6 sudden and otherwise unexplained deaths, and 2 fatal and 4 non-fatal cases of heart failure.
Symptoms of botulism, which can be fatal, include weakness, dizziness, double vision, difficulty breathing and abdominal problems.
Prion diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) are fatal neurodegenerative diseases including variant and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in human, scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.
Prion diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) are fatal neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative conditions including kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome and fatal familial insomnia in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and chronic wasting disease in cervids [1] [4].
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also termed prion diseases, are fatal, neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, scrapie in goats and sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle [1], [2], [3], [4].
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00435.001 The Chikungunya virus is carried by mosquitos and can cause a number of diseases in humans including encephalitis, which can be fatal in some cases, and severe arthritis.
