Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standing out in the open here all night in the rain. Women with babies in their arms. They could not lie down because the water came up to their knees in places. There was not enough shelter, and in the morning there were always many sick and dying of pneumonia. We could not get our serious cholera cases to the hospital. And there was no one to take away the dead. They just lay around on the ground or in the water." High-pressure syringes have speeded vaccination and reduced the cholera threat, but camp health officials have already counted...
Died. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, 94, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic fleet at the outbreak of World War II; of pneumonia; in Sharon, Conn. Having seen action in both the Spanish-American War and World War I, Tommy Hart became the oldest admiral afloat when F.D.R. extended his tour of duty past the mandatory retirement age of 64. Convinced that war was imminent, Hart kept the principal warships based in Manila Bay out of the harbor, avoiding another Pearl Harbor. Forced to move his headquarters south to Java, Hart commanded the outnumbered Americans in the three-day battle...
Died. John S. Sumner, 94, for 35 years quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...
...absence of the enzyme necessary for the metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine; as a result, toxins accumulate in the body and eventually cause convulsions and brain damage. Cystic fibrosis, which causes abnormal secretion by certain glands and respiratory-tract blockage that can lead to death by pneumonia, is the most common inborn error of metabolism; it is believed to be caused by a deficiency in a single gene...
...suffers from diabetes, the odds are even worse. Members of one large South Dakota family afflicted with a rare degenerative nerve disease have been advised, for example, that the odds are 50-50 that any children they have will suffer loss of balance and coordination and die, probably of pneumonia, by age 45 (TIME...