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...more were expected to die from the fumes in the next two weeks; some 3,000 remained critically ill. In all, 150,000 people were treated at hospitals and clinics in Bhopal and surrounding communities. Most of the dead had succumbed because their lungs had filled with fluid, causing the equivalent of death by drowning. Others had suffered heart attacks. The disaster struck hardest at children and old people, whose lungs were either too small or too weak to withstand the poison. A number of the survivors were permanently blinded, others suffered serious lesions in their nasal and bronchial passages...
...reacts quickly with water, and can easily be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. It causes moist human tissues like lung interiors to swell and the eyes to develop cataracts. Victims can suffocate because MIC causes the lungs to fill with fluid, and they can suffer liver damage and burning of the nasal passages, throat and trachea...
...fourth opinions from experts in the field. Yet she never lost sight of the human drama. At briefings for reporters at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, she found herself "slipping in questions about the decor of Schroeder's hospital room between questions about whether there was too much fluid in his lungs...
...came about an hour after surgery when Schroeder was suddenly jolted into consciousness and, terrified by all the activity around him, tried to bolt from the bed. Doctors restrained him and increased his sedation. Five hours later they confronted a more serious problem: an alarming amount of fluid was building up in Schroeder's chest cavity and lungs and his skin was turning bluish-gray, a sign that not enough oxygenated blood was being circulated. They rushed him back to the operating room to find that he was hemorrhaging along the row of stitches connecting the artificial heart...
...inhabits Deramo's body to deceive Angela or when Deramo assumes the shape of a ghastly, emaciated, old man, their disembodied voices are piped in, as though from another world. The actors, after the manner of Oriental drama, seem like life-sized puppets, but with the intricate gestures and fluid grace of human voice and movement. The entire cast is superb, from Thomas Derrah at King Deramo to Lynn Chausow as Clarice with her Little-Bo-Peep voice and Christopher Moore as Leandro, who loves Clarice and makes every entrance head-over-heels...