Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mulcahy was found lying on the doorsill outside a motel cabin in rural Virginia. An autopsy showed that he had been drunk and was suffering from bronchial pneumonia and emphysema; however, no one of these conditions alone caused his death. Even so, his passing would have been unremarkable were it not for the difficult, dangerous crusade that Mulcahy had pursued for the past six years. Almost singlehanded, he had persuaded the Government to investigate and prosecute Frank Terpil and Edwin Wilson, two former CIA employees who made fortunes during the 1970s outfitting terrorist squads from Londonderry to Libya. Terpil remains...
...love football, I love football, I loovvvvvvve football, I just kept saying it over and over again, trying to justify my impending pneumonia...
...several weeks ago in Toronto. One limiting factor for lung transplants is the lack of suitable donors. Wilson, however, was lucky. The lungs of Thomas Riso, 19, an auto-accident victim who matched Wilson in size and blood type, became available. Rise's right lung was infected with pneumonia, but the left was healthy enough to be transferred. It was artificially inflated, drained of blood and filled instead with a cold fluid that kept it at a temperature close to freezing during the 93-min. interval between excision and implantation. The entire procedure took six hours and involved five...
...wife to a spot on the new Executive Committee, thus entrenching her as the most likely person to dominate it and-though he denies it-perhaps even to emerge as President. Yet Marcos reinforced speculation about his health by checking into a hospital for two days for pneumonitis (incipient pneumonia) just after telling a press conference that he had come through a checkup "with flying colors...
...began suddenly, in the autumn of 1979. Young homosexual men with a history of promiscuity started showing up at the medical clinics of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a bizarre array of ailments. Some had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a deadly disease rarely seen except in drug-weakened cancer and transplant patients. Others bore the purplish skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that is usually confined to elderly men of Mediterranean extraction and young males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing...