Word: comas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encephalitis outbreak in Florida occurred in 1990, and during that brief epidemic, 230 people were infected, 11 fatally. The strain of the virus then--as now--was St. Louis encephalitis, a nasty pathogen that at first causes nothing more serious than flulike symptoms but that eventually may cause fever, coma and occasionally death. The New York strain is the rarer but more dangerous Eastern equine encephalitis, a disease that begins with fever, neck stiffness and headaches and may culminate in a swelling of the brain that claims 30% of victims. No effective treatments are available...
...from Aug. 16-19. Fetisov, Kozlov and Larionov plan to parade the Cup through the streets of Moscow and then put it on display in Red Square. The announcement comes on the same day that Konstantinov, the star defenseman injured in a June 13 limousine accident, emerged from his coma to what doctors described as a state of semi-consciousness. "He's more alert, but he's not fully conscious yet," said Dr. Karol Zakalik a neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. Perhaps Konstantinov, who played seven seasons with the Soviet Central Red Army Team, will derive some inspiration when...
Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...
That's when I learned you can't plan much in life. Cancer's slow march progressed quicker than anyone predicted, and it reached terminal stages less than two weeks later. After spending five full days in a morphine-induced coma, Grandma died. Words were left unsaid, deeds undone. Had we known, we would have done things so differently...
...blood sugar levels were near coma levels and I had one eye closed because I couldn't open it," Harbury said, describing her condition when the demarche was issued...