Word: pneumonia
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...play with other animals and not to be afraid of people. Also, health problems can pile up. In May, Lancaster County residents Raymond and Joyce Stoltzfus agreed to pay some $50,000 to reimburse 171 customers who claimed the puppies they bought from the couple suffered from pneumonia, heart defects and kidney failure...
...word recognition, attention and learning. Halfway around the world, a study of Bangladeshi children demonstrated the life-saving health benefits of minimal levels of this essential mineral. In a yearlong study of 1,621 children ages 2 months to 1 year, zinc supplements either prevented or lessened symptoms of pneumonia and diarrhea--conditions that kill millions of children each year in the developing world. Compared with the placebo group, children who took a weekly 70-mg dose of zinc had an 85% reduced risk of death...
DIED. ADRIAN ROGERS, 74, three-term president of the 16 million--member Southern Baptist Convention, who engineered conservatives' takeover of the group, which became a model for the Christian right; of double pneumonia and colon cancer; in Memphis. After Rogers promoted the doctrine of inerrancy--or literal truth of the Bible--the convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., boycotted the Walt Disney Co. because of its nondiscrimination policies toward gays and lesbians and declared that wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands...
DIED. R.C. GORMAN, 74, internationally renowned Navajo artist; of a blood infection and pneumonia; in Albuquerque, N.M. Derided by some as repetitive and uninspired, his paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
...poverty in Nepal and the toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...