Word: fevered
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...About 18 months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into Ilich's room, full of doctors and stacked with medicines, Ilich let out a last sigh ... Ilich, Ilich was no more...
...first 2 million years or so of human history, bacterial infections--pneumonia, scarlet fever, syphilis, festering wounds--were often tantamount to a death sentence. But one London morning, humanity got a dramatic reprieve when a Scottish researcher named Alexander Fleming happened to glance at some Petri dishes about to be sterilized for reuse and said, "That's funny." Fleming, who had seen the horrors of infection during World War I, was searching for a safe, powerful antibiotic. So far, he had found only a weak one, called lysozyme, extracted from body fluids. But when he looked at the dishes, Fleming...
Harvard couldn’t catch a cold, but Wisconsin-Milwaukee had the fever...
...anyone who has lived with a peanut allergy knows, it can be very dangerous. Unlike hay fever, an even more common allergy, an allergic reaction to peanuts can quickly kill you. In a process called anaphylaxis, the body overreacts to the point that its airways clamp down, which can lead in some cases to suffocation. Fortunately, anaphylaxis can be reversed--if it is recognized in time. (The EpiPen, a portable adrenaline shot that patients suffering an attack can give themselves before they get to the emergency room, has proved to be a lifesaver...
...disease triggers flulike symptoms--high fever, coughing, shortness of breath--but because it hasn't been responding to either antibiotics or antivirals, doctors can't immediately tell what causes it. For now they are calling it SARS--for Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome. Scientists speculate that it may be a bacterium or a virus that has mutated into a new, more virulent form...