31.   Sudden oak death has killed tens of thousands of coast live oak, black oak and tan oak trees in eight counties along the California coastline.

32.   Sudden unexpected death has been associated with the trait, but it is rare.

33.   Sudden oak death has also been found on an array of other plants, including madrone, evergreen huckleberry, California buckeye and Pacific rhododendron.

34.   The association had hoped to cut the number of sudden cardiac deaths in half.

35.   The Marin County Board of Supervisors, in a resolution passed in June, declared that sudden oak death had created a state of emergency.

36.   Thus, it more accurately reflects the racial mix in the United States than was the case in earlier studies of passive smoking and sudden infant death.

37.   Up and down the California coast, thousands of oak trees are dying of a fast-spreading new disease called sudden oak death syndrome.

38.   When the tree eventually dies its leaves go quickly from green to brown, hence the name sudden oak death syndrome.

39.   While great strides have been made in preventing and treating other kinds of heart attacks, sudden cardiac death remains a major medical puzzle.

40.   Patients taking older antipsychotic drugs for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia run a higher risk of sudden cardiac death, a U.S. study suggests.