She was SUFFERING from a FATAL ILLNESS for, at the very lease, the last five years of her life.

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Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now.

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In the 1990s it was still comparatively unusual to see a fatal illness portrayed in anything like a candid way onstage or on the screen.

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The walks prompted vivid memories which he included in his blog Walking on Planet C which is a frank and often uncomfortable account of life in the shadow of a potentially fatal illness.

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Dengue fever -- a flu-like illness which can be fatal and for which there is no vaccine -- blanketed Latin America in 1995.

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In January 2011, when my 9-month-old son, Ronan, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an always-fatal illness with no treatment, I needed a way to give order to my rage, confusion and despair, all of which compelled me to write.

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And in most of those cases, it wasn't the flu that was fatal but some another illness that took advantage of a weakened immune system caused by the H1N1 flu.

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The illness, which can be fatal, results in fever, muscle pain, headache and a rash.

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In 2010, there were 3.5 total recordable cases of non-fatal occupational injury and illness per 100 full-time workers, down from 5.0 less than a decade ago.

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