Inevitably, many thousands of H.I.V.-infected people would be exposed, and most would develop potentially fatal infections.
Centuries ago erysipelas epidemics caused severe and often fatal infections.
Radiation can kill the immune system, leaving victims vulnerable to potentially fatal infections.
That precludes solid food, and malnutrition is a threat, along with fatal infections.
And we are planning to publish regular data on other potentially fatal infections too.
When he checked into the hospital a few weeks later, his immune system was severely compromised, putting him at risk of a host of fatal infections.
LA-MRSA is able to cause serious and potentially fatal infections in humans, and as the bacteria is resistant to antibiotics, it is extremely difficult to treat.
But the pumps are hardly perfect; they often break, and some patients who receive them suffer fatal infections, while others die before ever leaving the hospital.
Of those who did report, 53 percent had been stuck while working on a patient at high risk for common, potentially fatal infections.
Regardless of the decade, physicians missed a quarter of fatal infections, a third of heart attacks, and almost two-thirds of pulmonary emboli in their patients who died.
Listeria can cause listeriosis, a rare disease that can lead to serious and sometimes fatal infections in infants, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.
