In some species, mortality rose to 90% and breeding success dropped to zero during that time.

The mortality of underwritten persons rises much more quickly than the general population.

In South Africa, excess female mortality between 10 and 50 years of age rose from close to zero to 74,000 deaths per year in 2008.

In areas that have been hit by an iceberg, its annual mortality rises to over 98 percent.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the patients of the South Down area will consequently be worse off and perinatal mortality and morbidity will rise.

Post-neonatal mortality due to infectious diseases also rose in all social class categories with increasing parity, according to the 1949-1950 British study (Morris et al, 1955).

Discussion Asthma-related morbidity and mortality have risen sharply in the USA since the late 1970s [ 2].

"If the same tendency continues, there is no doubt that in 1994 and later years, mortality will rise from problems that the health system could resolve."

All 15 of the passengers older than 60 died and mortality rose sharply among the older passengers.

Driving the new research effort is a chilling fact: adolescents are the only age group in which mortality has risen since 1960.