Word: pneumonia
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David Ho would be the first to say that he cannot take all the credit. It was an immunologist from Los Angeles named Michael Gottlieb who in 1981 reported the first cases of what was then called gay pneumonia. It was the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that alerted doctors to the gathering epidemic and established that the infection was transmitted through blood transfusions, tainted needles and unprotected sex. It was Dr. Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris that first isolated the killer virus in 1983. It was Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues...
...thing in common: whatever was making the men sick had singled out the T cells for destruction. Eventually the body's battered defenses couldn't shake off even the most innocuous microbial intruder. The men were dying from what doctors termed opportunistic infections, such as Pneumocystis pneumonia, which attacks the lungs, and toxoplasmosis, which often ravages the brain...
DIED. CARL SAGAN, 62, scientist and eloquent popularizer of astronomy whose lectures, books and TV appearances brought the majesty of the universe to ordinary earthlings; of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone-marrow disease; in Seattle. Sagan's mantra of "billions and billions" of stars from his award-winning 1980 PBS series Cosmos became both the object of parody and popular shorthand for the vastness of the universe. The show attracted a global audience of more than 500 million people in 60 countries. A prolific writer, Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden...
AILING. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, chain-smoking playwright-President of the Czech Republic; with pneumonia; following surgery to remove a malignant tumor and half of his right lung; in Prague. Doctors said Havel's prognosis was good, but late in the week, they performed a tracheotomy to relieve breathing problems. Havel's wife Olga, recipient of a famous series of his letters under the communists, died of cancer in January...
...Barnard took the heart of a 25-year-old woman, the victim of a road accident, and placed it in the chest of a 55-year-old man to perform the first heart transplant. The recipient died of pneumonia 18 days later, but at the time, Dr. Michael DeBakey, who consulted on Boris Yeltsin's surgery last week, declared it to be "a great achievement." Suffering from arthritis, Barnard retired in 1983. Since then he has written a number of novels. His latest book, The Donor, was just published in England. Barnard spends a lot of time...