A pulmonary anthrax infection starts with ordinary influenza-like symptoms and progresses to a lethal hemorrhagic mediastinitis within 3 – 7 days, with a fatality rate that is 90 % or higher in untreated patients.

; Tularemia: Tularemia, or rabbit fever, has a very low fatality rate if treated, but can severely incapacitate.

Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

The toxic phase is fatal in approximately 20 % of cases, making the overall fatality rate for the disease 3 % ( 15-20 %).

The case fatality rate is less than 1 % for hospitalized infants with botulism.

From the details of the homicides he concluded that the risk of a crime of passion or other domestic dispute ending in a fatal injury was much higher when a gun was readily available ( essentially all the increased risk being in homes where a handgun was kept loaded and unlocked ), compared to a lower rate of fatality in domestic violence not involving a firearm.

Popularized by Jenner in the late 1790s, kinepox was a far safer method for inoculating people against smallpox than the previous method, variolation, which had a 3 % fatality rate.

A study released in 1978 by the United States Department of Transportation claimed that cars with automatic seat belts had a fatality rate of. 78 per 100 million miles, compared with 2. 34 for cars with regular, manual belts.

Maine was hit very hard during the year of 1617, with a fatality rate of 75 %, and the population of the Eastern Abenaki fell to about 5, 000.

; Zaire ebolavirus ( ZEBOV ): Also known simply as the Zaire virus, ZEBOV has the highest case-fatality rate of the ebolaviruses, up to 90 % in some epidemics, with an average case fatality rate of approximately 83 % over 27 years.

According to the February 24, 2010 policy analysis " The Year of the Drone " released by the New America Foundation, the civilian fatality rate since 2004 is approximately 32 %.

Between the years 1987 and 2000, the case fatality rate across the United States was three measles-attributable deaths per 1000 cases, or 0. 3 %.

In immunocompromised patients ( e. g. people with AIDS ) the fatality rate is approximately 30 %.

Alveolar and polycystic echinococcosis are rarely diagnosed in humans and are not as widespread as cystic echinococcosis, but polycystic echinococcosis is relatively new on the medical scene and is often left out of conversations dealing with echinococcosis, and alveolar echinococcosis is a serious disease that not only has a significantly high fatality rate but also has the potential to become an emerging disease in many countries.

This resulted in a fatality rate of 108. 1 deaths per 100, 000 workers that year.

This rate is over 30 times higher than the overall fatality rate.

Untreated pneumonic plague has a very high fatality rate.

Apparently, at this early stage of the car's entry into the grid, the streets of major cities worldwide were the scene of virtual " slaughter " as the fatality rate per 100, 000 pop was more than double the current.

For every billion kilometers traveled, trains have a fatality rate 12 times larger than air travel, while automobiles have a fatality rate 62 times larger.

In the UK, fatality rates per mile or kilometre are slightly less than those for walking.

The fatality and serious injury rates per hour of travel are just over double for cycling than for walking ( owing to the reduced travel time ), in the UK.

When compared against all other modes of transport on a fatality per mile basis air transport is the safest — six times safer than traveling by car and twice as safe as rail.

According to a report by the U. S. Government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, among 10 different classes of passenger vehicles, " very small cars " have the highest fatality rate per mile driven.

NHTSA also stated that the fatality rate for school bus passengers is 0. 2 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, compared to 1. 5 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles for cars.

Also, IIHS fatality risks statistics rated the Cavalier among the " Highest rates of driver deaths ," with 150 ( 4 door ) to 171 ( 2 door ) driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.

The Peltzman effect has been used to explain Smeed's Law, an empirical claim that traffic fatality rates increase with the number of vehicle registrations per capita, and differing safety standards have no effect.

For example, the 2006 Canadian motor vehicle fatality rate per province varied between 8. 8 and 26. 8 per 100, 000 licensed drivers per year, with a national average of 13.

During 2000-2006, commercial fishing was one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States, with an average annual fatality rate of 115 deaths per 100, 000 fishermen.

Boiler explosions and other railway accidents made railroad work among the most deadly in America at the end of the 19th Century, with an annual fatality rate in the early 1890s of approximately 9 per 1, 000 workers — higher even than the 7. 8 per 1, 000 fatality rate suffered by hard rock miners in the Western United States.

* Pedestrians: From 1975 to 1997, pedestrian fatality rates decreased 41 %, from 4 per 100, 000 population in 1975 to 2. 3 in 1997 but still account for 13 % of motor-vehicle-related deaths.

In toxicology, the LD < sub > Lo </ sub > ( Lethal Dose Low ) is the lowest dosage per unit of bodyweight ( typically stated in milligrams per kilogram ) of a substance known to have resulted in fatality in a particular animal species.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

Canadian Forces identity discs ( abbreviated " I discs ") are designed to be broken in two in the case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to National Defence Headquarters with the member's personal documents, while the upper half remains on the body.

Military of the Netherlands identity tags, like the Canadian and Norwegian ones, are designed to be broken in two in case of a fatality ; the lower end is returned to Dutch Defence Headquarters, while the upper half remains on the body.

The most infamous reported fatality from a meteorite impact is that of an Egyptian dog that was killed in 1911, although this report is highly disputed.

* 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

In livestock, the fatality level is significantly higher.

* August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.

A relatively common mistake in fatality cases is to use a cord that is too long.

Shigellosis is a more common and serious condition in the developing world ; fatality rates of Shigellosis epidemics in developing countries can be 5 – 15 %.

Westmorland is on State Route 86, which was upgraded to a new six-lane highway to reduce its infamous auto accident and fatality risk, while it connects with Brawley, El Centro and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.

The exact fatality count is not known, but it is estimated between 200 and 300 settlers were killed in the battle.