"Fredrik Eriksson" <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:35:27 +0200, Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > "It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people..."
> >
> > Wait...what?
> >
> > Four known affected people, but only *nearly* one dead.  So either
> > someone is mostly dead, or one person is dead and another is an
> > itty-witty bit dead.
>
> "So far it has killed five out of 21 patients analyzed in the United
> States, a nearly 25 percent mortality rate."
>
> One out of four known, not one out of *the* four known.

Goes to show you the quality of news editors nowadays... They then mean:

"It has killed nearly one out of four among known affected people..."

not

"It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people..."

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