Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result was both inevitable and 'catastrophic. From the far corners of the sprawling nation, ominous reports began filtering back to Léopoldville: eruptions of bubonic and pneumonic plague, outbreaks of smallpox, widespread increases in serious but less spectacular diseases such as malaria, filariasis, meningitis and pneumonia...
...moment is serious enough," says Beni's Dr. Joseph Barnes, "but it is rosy compared with what might happen three months from now." Beni Hospital has only a two-month supply of antibiotics, and unless more drugs arrive soon, Dr. Barnes predicts a skyrocketing rate of meningitis, pneumonia and leprosy-plus an outbreak of sleeping sickness. Worse yet, most of the U.N. doctors are scheduled to leave in De cember. Says Dr. Barnes: "What we need here is an almost unknown animal: a specialist in tropical diseases, surgery and obstetrics, with good French and Swahili, who is utterly unconcerned...
Contacted by phone last night, the elder Grueninger said the Medical Center originally diagnosed his son's case as ordinary pneumonia and sent him home. his son returned to the Center one or two days later," according to Mr. Grueninger, he was admitted to the Bent Brigham Hospital, and the diagnosis was changed to staphylococcus...
...refused to accept his own social security paycheck of $99.15 until he was 86.) After his wife's death in 1951, Dr. Townsend spent his days restlessly traveling, speaking to the faithful, trying to rekindle the old fires. In the midst of a tour last month, he caught pneumonia, died of complications in Long Beach last week, a wispy old-fire breather of 93, unknown or half-forgotten by most Americans. But he was remembered with a nervous twinge by an older generation of politicians, and mourned by 1.000,000 faithful followers in the remaining 2,000 Townsend clubs...
Died. Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, 93, California visionary, whose pension plan never came to pass; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...