Word: pneumonia
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...itself is rarely the direct cause of death, but it may damage the lungs so that pneumonia develops. In an already weakened patient, this may prove incurable. In plotting flu's ravages, PHS tallies all "excess deaths" (above normal for the city and season) in 108 U.S. cities, and checks to see whether the peaks coincide with a rash of "influenza-pneumonia" entries on death certificates. So far, throughout the U.S.. there have been few reports of such "excess deaths...
...Kennedy, in Florida on what was to have been a relaxed holiday, the year ended bleakly. His father lay weak and ill in St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, his side paralyzed and his voice still. Joseph Kennedy's stroke was further complicated by sudden pneumonia; he had to be wheeled to an operating room for a tracheotomy that drained off bronchial secretions and eased his breathing. The pneumonia subsided following the operation. Emerging from his two-a-day visits to his father's bedside, the President looked weary and worried...
...Czechoslovakia, Communist Boss Antonin Novotny followed Khrushchev's destalinization line by reburying a predecessor, ex-President Klement Gottwald, who died in 1953, nine days after Stalin, of natural causes (pneumonia and pleurisy, contracted at Stalin's funeral). From his modernistic mausoleum in suburban Prague's Vitkov Hill, where he lay in public view, Gottwald was moved to a national memorial park and placed underground. Novotny himself used to be a notorious Stalinist, but in an ironic and macabre turnabout managed to blame most of his party's past Stalinist errors on former Party Boss Rudolf Slansky...
Home to Bonham. Mister Sam fought hard against death. Pneumonia nearly finished him, but he came back for a while. The doctors eased his pain with drugs. They tried X rays and the drug 5-fluorou-racil in a futile attempt to slow the cancer's spread. At last the day came when medicine could do no more and, at his own request, Mister Sam went home to Bonham for the last time, returning to "those friends and neighbors who for so long have given me a love and loyalty unsurpassed in any annals." By last week the cancer...
Measles, the most common childhood disease in the United States, is dreaded especially because of its complications. Leaving victims highly susceptible to infections of any kind, it may lead to pneumonia, to tuberculosis or to encephalitis, a fatal disease of the brain and spinal column...