Word: pneumonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SARS treated? Doctors are using the same antibiotics, antivirals and steroids that they give to patients with "atypical pneumonia." Patients are isolated in specially ventilated hospital rooms, and medical workers wear masks, gowns, gloves and goggles to prevent further transmission...
...first 2 million years or so of human history, bacterial infections--pneumonia, scarlet fever, syphilis, festering wounds--were often tantamount to a death sentence. But one London morning, humanity got a dramatic reprieve when a Scottish researcher named Alexander Fleming happened to glance at some Petri dishes about to be sterilized for reuse and said, "That's funny." Fleming, who had seen the horrors of infection during World War I, was searching for a safe, powerful antibiotic. So far, he had found only a weak one, called lysozyme, extracted from body fluids. But when he looked at the dishes, Fleming...
...world--and the airline industry--didn't have enough to worry about, health officials on three continents last week were warning travelers to beware of a deadly, highly contagious form of pneumonia being rapidly carried around the world by passengers on jet planes. By Saturday night, at least nine people had died, one of them an American businessman traveling in Asia. The World Health Organization issued a rare emergency travel advisory after receiving reports of at least 150 cases. Meanwhile, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta were scrambling to identify the bug before...
...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...
...keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double the official statistic. Across the country...