Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pneumonia, syphilis, gonorrhea, diphtheria, scarlet fever and many wound and childbirth infections that once killed indiscriminately suddenly became treatable. As deaths caused by bacterial infections plummeted, a grateful world needed a hero. Fleming alone became such an object of public adulation, probably for two reasons. First, Florey shunned the press, while Fleming seemed to revel in the publicity. Second, and perhaps more important, it was easier for the admiring public to comprehend the deductive insight of a single individual than the technical feats of a team of scientists...
...Doctors in Los Angeles alert the Centers for Disease Control to five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in gay men, one of the earliest signs of the AIDS epidemic...
LARRY FLYNT, just released from a Los Angeles intensive-care ward after a bout of pneumonia, says there's only about a 20% chance he'll release new scandalous information before the end of President Clinton's trial, although he has a fully documented file ready to go against "a couple of U.S. Senators" of the G.O.P. persuasion. "I'm actually opposed to exposing details of people's sex lives, which is what the Republicans did to Clinton," says Flynt. He stresses, however, that he might be more inclined to cough up new dirt if the Senate decides to reach...
Larry Flynt, just released from a Los Angeles intensive-care ward after a bout of pneumonia, says there's only about a 20 percent chance he'll release new scandalous information before the end of President Clinton's trial, although he has a fully documented file ready to go against "a couple of U.S. senators" of the GOP persuasion. "I'm actually opposed to exposing details of people's sex lives, which is what the Republicans did to Clinton," says Flynt. He stresses, however, that he might be more inclined to cough up new dirt if the Senate decides...
...pain caused by homework isn't just emotional. Carl Glassman, father of two girls who attend public school in New York City, reports that last year his eldest daughter missed much of her first semester in sixth grade because of pneumonia, "due to the fact that she was doing homework until 11 every night." Laura Mandel, the New Jersey mother of three, found her son Jeffrey, 6, suffering homework-related nightmares this month when she tried gently to rouse him for school. "Oh, Mom," he pleaded, half asleep, "don't tell me there's another homework sheet...