To him, Herr S, who blames himself for the spread of a deadly childbed fever epidemic, looks "as if his bones had been broken, and had mended strangely".
Far from being deadly, child-snatching predators, London's newest immigrants are likely scared, cold and defenceless, spending half the year hibernating through our shitty weather, and the other half dodging far-deadlier housecats.
It is too soon to tell whether the H1N1 swine flu will turn out to be more deadly in children than other types of influenza, Dr. Frieden said, adding that in most years 50 to 100 children die of seasonal flu.
I'm the mother of a daughter who died from a pediatric brain tumor, the second most common childhood cancer and the most deadly in children ages 5 to 9. Unlike breast cancer in which the average age of diagnosis is 61, most children with brain tumors are diagnosed under the age of 8.
Deadly 60 Children's BBC's newest hit, the CBBC show features presenter Steve Backshall tracking down the world's deadliest animals.
While adults shouldn't needlessly expose themselves to this potentially deadly radiation, children must be prohibited from exposure to this cancer-causing agent.
And except for ground beef there is no testing at all for E. coli 0157 H7, a bacterium particularly deadly to children that has been responsible for outbreaks from foods ranging from ground beef to alfalfa sprouts.
His colleague in Africa, Patrick Duffy, won a $19 million award to pin down which forms of malaria are most deadly to children, and Dominic Kwiatkowski at Oxford University got a $16.4 million grant to explore which variations in the human genome protect some people from ever contracting malaria.
A common virus can be deadly for children with cardiomyopathy because their heart is already in a weakened state.
The game has been played for decades but has become more deadly as children use ligatures that allow them to play alone.
