Word: coma
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...reported that one person in Vietnam thought to have died of encephalitis last spring was actually infected with bird flu. The case was misdiagnosed because the patient did not show the respiratory symptoms typical of avian flu. Instead, the virus attacked the brain and the patient fell into a coma before dying. "We must have been missing cases," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, one of the co-authors of the paper. "That's going to complicate disease surveillance...
Ivory Tower Coma, Harvard stalkers ain't so smart
...other victims she made up stories about her mother or father having cancer or falling into a coma. Each excuse prevented her from vacating the apartment and left the renters without a place to stay...
...found Dallaire unconscious on a park bench: he’d consumed a bottle of scotch—which produced a dangerous mixture with his daily dose of prescription psychotropic drugs. By the time police had rushed Dallaire to the hospital, the decorated general had nearly fallen into a coma...
...what exactly happened. “I had been told there was a former member of Congress who knew what had happened to Irma,” she said, “but by the time I got down there [to Guatemala] he had gone into a diabetic coma and never came out. I now seriously doubt, however, if he really knew the truth...