Mosquitoes are a true scourge, responsible for up to one million human deaths per year.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
The eggs are linked to an ongoing Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in seven states, in which 79 people have been sickened and at least 21 hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As Joel talks to Ellie, a different solemn moment unfolds in Salt Lake City, where the young survivors of Joel’s Firefly massacre bury their dead and try to figure out what happened.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2025
However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.
While the theme of mortality is threaded throughout the film, it is also balanced with hope, appreciation and more than a dab of realism.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
The Life of Chuck is, as might be expected from the Master of the Macabre, a story of human mortality presented as a strange, surrealist comedy … a kind of pop-culture version of Lars Von Trier’s 2011 end-of-the-world movie Melancholia.
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