What is "mortality rates"

Usage examples of "mortality rates".

The mothers were ill during the birth or up to thirty-six hours later and then quickly died in the clinic with the high mortality rates.

Diphtheria is also penicillin sensitive, so application as throat and nasal drops might drastically lower mortality rates.

Note that the difference between England of the 1960s and Mexico of the 1920s came mostly from lower child mortality rates.

He supposed that advising the local barbarians to cooperate with one another in the destruction of this Q'Nkok would hardly advance the cause of civilization, and he remembered what his chief of staff had said about barbarism and infant mortality rates.

Outbreaks of high fever and wasting sickness in Romulan and Federation space, signs and symptoms, failure to respond to standard treatments, mortality rates, projected outcomes if the disease spread unchecked.

The mortality rates are three to four times higher in the Indian Ocean area, ten times higher in the American tropics, and fifty times higher in West Africa.

He created men, he meddles in their affairs, he negotiates with the other spirits for good harvests and low mortality rates.

Its victims display many of the symptoms of influenza but the disease has produced early mortality rates higher than pneumonia, AIDS, and what was once called Legionnaires Disease.

Certainly the Earth would have gained a reputation for unusually low mortality rates.

They suffer from malnutrition and other poor conditions that cause very high mortality rates -- and, if they survive, they have very severe health problems all through their lives.