Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry about. Last week state health authorities confirmed that they are trying to determine whether Feldman, 45, who died of pneumonia in June, had unwittingly infected any patients with the AIDS virus...
Last New Year's Eve, Alyssa took to bed with symptoms that suggested bronchitis. Three months later, she was rushed to a hospital emergency room with a high fever. Doctors suspected a virus, but sent her home. Two days later, Alyssa was at her doctor's office with pneumonia. Within days her skin turned blue from lack of oxygen. By mid-April she was on a list for a lung transplant...
Herman M. Kalckar, a world-renowned biochemist, died from pneumonia May 17 at Mt. Auburn Hospital. He was 83 years...
...reported a dramatic increase in respiratory cases. Doctors in al-Ahmadi are seeing a rise in bronchitis and three times the usual number of asthma victims. Dr. Edward Beattie, a lung specialist at New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center, says there may also be cases of oil pneumonia, a potentially fatal ailment in which oil smothers the tiny air sacs in the lungs...
When she died last week, at 96, after a two-month battle with pneumonia, dance lovers -- from young members of her company to the thousands she trained and nurtured -- could hardly believe that she had succumbed to any physical weakness. She was the reigning deity of modern dance. If she did not invent it -- there are always forerunners in any movement -- she embodied it, propagated it, imposed a clear discipline and aesthetic on a new, inchoate art. By the 1950s she was the biggest dance celebrity in the country. She could inflame almost any audience, and she was a genius...