Word: pneumonia
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DIED. Martin Ryle, 66, British astrophysicist who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of radio astronomy techniques that extended mankind's reach 6 billion miles into the universe and led to the discovery of such intense, distant radio sources as pulsars and quasars; of pneumonia; in Cambridge, England. His major discovery, aperture synthesis, provided a method of focusing many small, separate radio antennas to fill in the gaps in broad-band radio waves, allowing astronomers to record tiny details, equivalent in terms of optical telescopes to reading a postage stamp on the moon...
...said that he was originally forced to leave Cambridge for Arizona due to his poor health. He died of pneumonia in Tucson's Eldorado Hospital...
...although it tends to hit adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates, chickenpox-related illness leads to 100 deaths and 4,500 hospitalizations every year...
...year-old Evie Swanson of Attica, Ind., received second-and third-degree burns when scalding tea spilled over her. Infection set in, was left untreated, and Evie died two days later. In another case, newborn Joel David Hall of Whitley County, Ind., died in February from pneumonia even though, as County Coroner Alfred Allina noted, $5 worth of antibiotics might have saved his life. A grand jury is considering an indictment against the parents. It would be the first such criminal case in Indiana...
DIED. Anna Anderson Manahan, 82, who spent 62 years trying to prove that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and only survivor of the 1918 execution of the Russian imperial family at Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk); of pneumonia; in Charlottesville, Va. Contending that she survived the slaughter by hiding behind one of her dead sisters, "Anastasia" was rejected as an impostor by Romanov relatives. She married Historian John E. Manahan in 1968. Her life became the subject of many books and was the basis of the movie Anastasia...