Sentence examples for fatal sickness from inspiring English sources

They had contracted a form of pneumonia from bacteria in the hotel's cooling tower, a potentially fatal sickness which became known as legionnaires' disease.

As Dr Valerie Fildes points out, the physician John Caius (of Gonville & Caius college fame) was given milk directly from the breast during his fatal sickness in 1573.

She kept looking for a doctor who would tell her, unequivocally, that her symptoms could not possibly indicate a fatal sickness.

The book, "Hitler's Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders" (Hippocrene Books, 1999), records his professional impressions of the men and their conditions.

Kate Webster as the bodily Ch'ien-nu, claiming that "love is the most fatal sickness of all", looks suitably stricken while Emma Fildes gives the impression that her soul is a good time girl who relishes her freedom.

If divers ascend too quickly, the drop in pressure causes nitrogen dissolved in their blood and body tissues to form bubbles, and they suffer the potentially fatal malady known as decompression sickness, or the bends.

Radioactivity can cause a variety of health problems, from a reddening of the skin and increased cancer risk to fatal radiation sickness.

Before nearby residents had begun to evacuate, you could have a meltdown that would spew a volcano of radioactive isotopes into the air, causing fatal radiation sickness for those exposed to high doses and raising lifetime cancer rates for miles around.

The technology was originally developed to study the tsetse fly in Africa, which spreads the potentially fatal sleeping sickness.

Some of the pelts also tested positive for Trypanosoma lewisi, a parasite belonging to the group of organisms responsible for the fatal sleeping sickness and Chagas disease in humans.

The organisms multiply in the host's bloodstream and eventually spread to the central nervous system, where they initiate a cascade of events that results in fatal sleeping sickness [1].