Word: pneumonia
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...complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members, there is the acknowledgment that the one man who really put the grand plot together has left the scene. That is Bill Casey, the CIA director who died in May 1987 from pneumonia after surgery for a brain tumor, a man who loved power, position and a good mystery. John Poindexter did not have the temperament for the shady back-alley intrigue that Casey concocted...
...youth had caught pneumonia. Another had gone berserk and required evacuation. A Vietnam veteran had stalked the mountain camp, threatening the youngsters...
...missed days of work or school. But for people 65 and over and for those who have chronic heart or respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma or weakened immune systems, the disease can easily be fatal. Less able to fend off infections, these individuals are more susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and, occasionally, kidney failure and heart attacks. In an average year, flu is a factor in about 20,000 deaths in the U.S. The majority of A-Shanghai victims have been elderly, and all 50 states have discovered outbreaks in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities...
...fight back, Havel was jailed three times for a total of almost five years on the flimsiest of charges. One four-month stretch was served in a cell 12 ft. by 7 ft., which he shared with a burglar. A second imprisonment ended when he nearly died of pneumonia that was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by prison doctors. His last internment, four months of a scheduled eight, was in 1989 for participating in a flower-laying ceremony in memory of a student who set himself afire to protest the 1968 invasion...
Derek Hodel, 30, runs a New York City consumer organization that helps people purchase anti-AIDS drugs. For the past three months, his People with AIDS Health Group has assisted hundreds of sufferers from the viral malady in importing aerosol pentamidine, a powerful drug that effectively prevents Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the leading cause of AIDS-related death. A month's supply of the chemical retails for $26 in Britain, where drug costs are regulated by the government; in the U.S. the price is $150. Says Hodel: "The idea that people have to import medications to get a good price...