Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blisters all over the body of the newborn, and fast-spreading diarrhea. From the eyes (conjunctivitis) they can spread to bone (osteomyelitis). If staph spread to the inner surface of the heart chambers, they can cause heart failure and death. In the lungs they are a potent source of pneumonia; many of the pneumonia deaths following Asian flu are laid to staph...
...interested in the son of his old colleague, and his influence on Johnson's career is immeasurable. In 1931, when Lyndon Johnson came to Washington as an aide to Texas Representative Richard Kleberg, part owner of the famed King Ranch, he worked himself into a case of galloping pneumonia and collapsed. When he came to in a hospital, he found Sam Rayburn at his bedside. "Now, Lyndon," said Mister Sam, "you just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call on me." Johnson did not need the money...
Asian flu faced U.S. disease detectives with a puzzle last week. The nation's big-city health departments were noting an upsurge in deaths due to influenza and pneumonia (meaning, mostly, pneumonia as influenza's aftermath). In Dallas the rate was 150% above normal, in New York City 85% and Chicago 75%. Yet, unlike last fall, there was no reported increase in absenteeism from work. Probable answer: the present wave is hitting mostly older people who no longer work, are particularly vulnerable to flu and pneumonia...
...Though usually a mild disease, Asian flu can kill rapidly, without intervening pneumonia. Paradoxically, this occurs most often among young adults. One hospitalized Briton, 30, had no fever, told the house physician he "felt fine," then died within a few minutes. There has been a handful of such cases...
Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn...