Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of epidemic diseases have been more baffling than the one that struck more than 200 people during an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976. Since then, disease detectives have isolated the bacterium-like organism that causes Legionnaires' disease. But if this dangerous form of pneumonia, which is now suspected of afflicting up to 45,000 people a year in the U.S. alone and requires treatment with the antibiotic erythromycin, is ever to be fully understood, researchers must know where the as yet unnamed infecting agent usually lives and how it is transmitted to humans...
...develop inflammation of the epididymis, which carries sperm from the testis. In women, inflammation may occur in the cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia. Says Epidemiologist Julius Schachter of the University of California at San Francisco: "Five percent, at a minimum, of all newborn infants are exposed to these organisms. Forty percent to 50% of all babies passing through an infected cervix acquire chlamydial infection...
Inevitably such experiences must come home. Laird Guttersen's blood pressure was so low after three months of torture, complicated by pneumonia, that parts of him lost all feeling when he remained still more than ten minutes. At night, instead of sleeping he used to lie in a feverish trance, shifting to stay alive, timing himself by the half-hour chimes of a distant clock. "When Laird came home we couldn't sleep in the same bed at first," remembers his wife Virginia, a frail, dark-blue-eyed wife who waited. "He shifted a quarter turn every five...
Though Waller was a national figure when, in 1943, he died of pneumonia at the age of 39, he was almost forgotten until Maltby revived his music...
Tennessee welfare workers petitioned for the operation over her protest. Her court-appointed lawyer resisted. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eventually, believing Miss Mary to be near death, the courts gave permission for the surgery. It was not needed. Miss Mary had developed pneumonia, and the antibiotics used to help her had also halted the gangrene...