Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of injuries and ailments hurt Harvard even before the race began. Freshman standout Noel Scidmore has been battling a case of pneumonia since the Penn-Columbia meet. Meyer had sprained his ankle, captain Stein Rafto has been suffering leg trouble, and freshman Guy McRoskey...
...feature of Harvard's win was surprise, the kind of surprise that results from unexpected excellance on the part of junior team members and unknowns. Despite the loss of junior Marc Meyer, who sprained an ankle on Thursday, and promising freshman Noel Seidmore, who began a bout with viral pneumonia last week, the new and unknown names of Finn, Leftus and McCroskey saved the day by filling out the roster of top Crimson finishers...
...first evidence of these virulent new bugs was detected in May at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, a port on the Indian Ocean, where five children ranging in age from three months to two years came down with unusually persistent cases of pneumonia. Three eventually died of meningitis. The two who recovered did so only after long treatment...
Worse news soon came from Johannesburg, 300 miles inland. A three-year-old boy admitted to Baragwanath Hospital for heart surgery had his operation postponed for five weeks until he was cured of a stubborn case of pneumonia. But after surgery he again developed pneumonia, and analysis of the guilty bacteria proved them to be similar to those identified in Durban. They were astonishingly resistant to penicillin and also to many newer antibiotics. In the boy's case, the hardy new pneumococci finally succumbed to combined doses of rifampin and fusidic acid, but doctors noted that he was already...
...Disease Control in Atlanta, the newly virulent pneumococcal strains have so far appeared only in South Africa. But that is no cause for complacency. Tests showed that staff members at Baragwanath and 80 patients at another Johannesburg hospital also harbored the new strain. Though some showed no symptoms of pneumonia, others became ill and one patient died. The danger, says Epidemiologist Fraser, is that patients' relatives and hospital staff members can carry the bacteria in their throats and remain well, yet transmit the infection to others who will become seriously ill. Thus a seemingly healthy air traveler from Johannesburg...