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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After John is diagnosed with a fatal illness, he quits his job and, with a photojournalist friend (Ruben Blades), wanders the underside of Hong Kong the brothels, the betting parlors, and the markets where animals are slaughtered with his video camera in search of authentic images.

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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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