State officials said there were no known fatalities attributable to the blackout, and the governor said the state's emergency response plan, which was revamped after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, operated smoothly.
Researchers at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health studied deaths before and after a reduction in the price of alcohol in Finland, and tracked the fatalities attributable to alcohol abuse — liver disease, alcohol poisoning, alcohol-related violence or accidents, among others.
I asked C. J. Peters to give me a quick-and-dirty estimate of total global human fatalities attributable to ebola, Lassa, and other hemorrhagic viruses each year; his conservative educated guess was around 6,000, though possibly 10 times as high.
In looking closer at the data, for fatalities attributable to "Human Choice," it was found that no category increased as much as fatalities attributable to distracted driving.
Specifically, distracted driving fatalities increased by 8.8.%, fatalities attributable to failure to wear seat belts 4.9%, from impaired driving 3.2% and from speeding 3.0%.
Roughly 1,000 people sought shelter during the storm, but owing to the timely preparations in the country, only one cardiac arrest fatality was attributable to Gert when a landslide buried a home.
According to Beesoon et al. (3 ), the fatality rate attributable to chikungunya infection was much higher on Mauritius: 743 deaths in excess of expected deaths led to a CFR of ≈4.5%, with 15,760 confirmed or suspected cases for 2005 and 2006 as reported in this letter.
The low number of fatalities is attributable to the extensive evacuation procedures which underwent prior to the storm, as well as warnings provided by the Weather Bureau.
A Bayer spokesman, Robert Kloppenburg, said that the company does not believe any of the fatalities were "attributable" to Avelox and that most of the patients had serious preexisting conditions.
