Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether or not President Eisen-hower should run for re-election following a heart attack would never have arisen in the years prior to 1931. For, between 1912 when J.B. Herrick published the classical description of myocardial infarction and 1931, the condition was thought to be inevitably and rapidly fatal...
...performing probably wolf's greatest service to man since the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus. The wolf of Sahneh was rabid, and his appearance was just what a World Health Organization team had been waiting for. If it gets a chance to develop, rabies is invariably fatal. Ever since the days of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), doctors have been able to head off rabies with a series of 14 to 21 vaccinations, but the treatment is costly, painful-and sometimes fatal. A "hyper-immune serum." developed about ten years after Pasteur's vaccine from the blood...
...antidote against nerve gases-one of the most publicized weapons in the unused arsenal of chemical warfare-was an nounced this week by Columbia University researchers. A cheap chemical nicknamed PAM, it has proved 100% effective against gases that had always been 100% fatal in test animals. The compound's significance: it may nullify the hazards of nerve gas directed in war against either troops or civilian populations...
...When Eileen Sue Van Lopik, 2, of Grand Rapids was found last November to have acute leukemia, doctors examined her identical twin Kathleen Jo, were relieved that she seemed to have no sign of the invariably fatal disease. Last week, as the parents were told that there was no chance for Eileen Sue, they learned the worst: Kathleen Jo has leukemia. Since there is no known hereditary factor in the disease, the Van Lopiks were victims of an estimated million-to-one mischance. This week Eileen Sue died...
...Drug Administration officials have found traces of penicillin in 3% to 11½% of milk samples tested at random across the U.S. Source: milk taken from cows too soon after treatment for udder inflammation. These tiny amounts are not dangerous to the vast majority of people, but could prove fatal to the few who are "exquisitely sensitive" to penicillin. Farmers, says the FDA, must not sell milk produced the first three days after treatment ends...