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...disease is sweeping the U.S. It is known as "pneumonitis," "virus pneumonia" and a half-dozen other names. The Army, which has special reason to be worried, labels the disease "primary atypical pneumonia, etiology [cause] unknown...
Unlike flu or a cold, pneumonitis entails inflammation of the lungs; hence it can often be distinguished only by X-ray photographs. And unlike pneumonia, no bacterial cause can be found. In fact, nothing at all is known about its cause (some doctors think it may be not one but a group of related diseases). Probable cause is a virus, but researchers haven't identified it. Since doctors don't know the cause of pneumonitis, they know little about its treatment...
Strangely, a person who has been weakened by pneumonitis is not peculiarly susceptible to pneumonia bacteria or influenza viruses. The disease is mildly contagious; but prolonged rather than casual exposure seems required to bring it out. An epidemic this month at the University of Rochester medical school sent 40 nurses, students, doctors...
...rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with deposits...
Died. Michel Fokine, 62, Russian "father of the modern ballet," and its greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...