Word: pneumonia
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Measles has been around so long and is so nearly universal among dense populations that it is widely regarded as an unavoidable childhood disease. But measles is a severe illness, definitely dangerous for children under three and for adults; it can lead to pneumonia and severe middle-ear infections (though in well-doctored areas these are now contained by antibiotics). It can also cause brain inflammation with high (10%) mortality and a higher rate of permanent damage; there is a fulminating (fortunately rare) form called hemorrhagic or black measles that swiftly causes death...
European nations, well aware of the old saw that when the U.S. sneezes the world catches pneumonia, have been anxiously taking their economic temperatures. While inflation has been checked in most countries, there have been only a few scattered sniffles so far. One big reason: U.S. imports have remained high, chiefly because of an increasing demand for small European cars, while exports have dropped. If the U.S. recession ends this year, European businessmen feel that they will not be affected, just as they were not affected by the 1953-54 drop. Items: ¶Britain's exports are booming (cars...
...that evening, Churchill's private secretary read a roomful of correspondents a 26-word bulletin signed by both doctors: Sir Winston had pneumonia and pleurisy. It was the fourth attack of pneumonia in Sir Winston's 83 years, and, said Dr. Roberts, "everything is troublesome to a man of his age." The world waited edgily for the next communiqu...
...Milan attic. Though her dress might be patched, elderly women neighbors noted that her underwear was always immaculate-and Giuseppina had a liking for pink underskirts. She was wearing one of these when, just after the Christmas holidays, Neighbor Astorria Alessi found her delirious with fever and pneumonia, arranged to get her into Milan's huge (2,274-bed) Niguarda Hospital...
...Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters ("Anderson Shelters"), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...