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...might reappear only at his funeral in Red Square. The unofficial grapevine is increasingly specific about the nature of Chernenko's illness. According to both Soviet and East European officials, he is suffering from a heart ailment resulting from emphysema, a pulmonary condition that has possibly been aggravated by pneumonia...
Women who contract chlamydia during a normal pregnancy face yet another serious problem: transmitting the disease to their babies, who are infected while passing through the birth canal. In infants, chlamydia manifests itself in the form of conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the eye, or as pneumonia. There is also some evidence, Holmes says, that chlamydial infection during pregnancy increases the risks of premature and stillborn births...
...months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
...clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves that has become popular with teen-agers across the nation. Soon he was gasping for breath, and by the next day he was in an intensive-care unit suffering from what appeared to be an unusually severe type of pneumonia. "He had cysts the size of golf balls in his lungs," says Thoracic Surgeon Frederick Schechter, who treated him at Humana Hospital in West Anaheim. In May, despite massive doses of antibiotics and four operations, Tim Cislaw died...
...fall, Ustinov faded out of the picture. Soviet television viewers had fully expected to see him pass through Red Square to review the massed battalions on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November, but he never appeared. According to the official medical bulletin last week, Ustinov had contracted pneumonia in October. Emergency surgery had to be performed to correct an aneurysm in the aortic valve. His liver and kidneys later malfunctioned, and he suffered a cardiac arrest last Thursday evening...