Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swept through Shanghai; by March it was in Canton. Early in April, influenza jumped to Hong Kong, almost certainly carried by refugees from Red China. The disease was marked by three or four days of severe headache, fever (up to 104°), aching muscles, general malaise. Against complications-bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. -sulfas and antibiotics worked well. (Hong Kong's unemployed made a good thing of standing in the clinic lines for drugs, then when they neared the head of the line selling their places to the severely ill for $1.) In a month. Hong Kong had an estimated...
Other Lung Diseases. Smokers' death rate was almost twice as high as that of nonsmokers; almost four times as high for deaths from pneumonia and influenza...
...death. Then, as Woodson scrabbled at the imprisoning sand, the boy groaned. Woodson pillowed Benny on his chest and was dragged back out of the pipe by his ankles. The incredulous cry, "He's alive!", swept through the crowd. Benny, who was found later to have contracted mild pneumonia in the 55° cold, owed his life to his jacket, which created an air pocket over his head, and to the skill and dedication of a community that was determined he should...
Pitchers have always been targets for trouble. But even for Herbert Jude Score, a young man whose luck has always been bad, this looked like the worst break yet. At three, a bakery truck crushed both legs; later he got pneumonia, then went to bed for eight months with rheumatic fever. In his early teens it was a broken ankle and acute appendicitis. A $60,000 Indian bonus baby at 19, he has not had a healthy summer since. But a dislocated collarbone, pneumonia again, a severe virus attack and a spastic colon could not keep him from running...
...nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...