1.   ALS, which causes severe muscle wasting, is typically fatal within two to five years.

2.   Anthrax is fatal within a week to a large proportion of those who inhale small amounts of the spores.

3.   Doctors say the disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, is incurable and usually proves fatal within two years without a transplant.

4.   If untreated, ventricular fibrillation can be fatal within minutes, or even seconds.

5.   In half of cases it is fatal within three years of onset.

6.   It is usually fatal within two weeks.

7.   None of them can imagine that the symptoms will become fatal within a few days.

8.   The end stage of the disease, known as blast crisis, can be fatal within several months, researchers said.

9.   Both forms can be treated with antibiotics, but the airborne version develops so rapidly that it is almost always fatal within a few days.

10.   The fever is usually fatal within several days.