On the other hand, the number of high-fatality attacks worldwide held steady, about 70 in both 2004 and 2005.

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The government report due to be published is expected to show that the number of road crash fatality victims known to have driven with drugs in their systems has risen from 3% in 1989 to 18% in 1999.

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That would mean a number of deaths: the fatality rate for measles in rich countries is one in somewhere between 2, 500 and 5, 000.

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When the allegations first surfaced, Pfizer had said that the number of deaths in the trial was lower than the overall fatality rate for the meningitis epidemic.

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