0 the number of people within a particular group who are killed by a particular cause:
The virus had a fatality rate of 75 percent; only a few diseases, such as untreated AIDS, have been as lethal.
The state doesn't keep data on helmet use, so fatality rates for riders wearing or not wearing helmets could not be determined.
The main reason that the childbirth fatality rate dropped in the start of the last century is that doctors finally put into place decent hygiene standards.
In the U.S., the average fatality rate for skydiving is considered to be about 1 in 80,000 jumps.
The in-hospital case-fatality rate was 0.4 % for varicella and 1 % for zoster.
The crude case-fatality rate was 2.0 %, with death occurring in three of the six nursing homes.
The fatality rate was 13n2 % and there was no difference in the fatality rate between males and females over 5 years old.
This was the case for our estimates of the fatality rate from bacteremia.
