Word: viral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full of Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia (see MEDICINE...
...Viral pneumonia is sometimes known, as Senator Sam Ervin Jr. referred to it in his lip-smackin' drawl, as "walkin' pneumonia." Often, as Dr. David J. Sencer of the U.S. Center for Disease Control pointed out, it is no worse than a bad cold or a touch of flu. But for some victims, especially those over 50, the bug that hospitalized President Nixon last week is a misery-making, debilitating illness. Victims can be reassured by the fact that viral pneumonia proves fatal in less than 1% of cases...
...inflammations of the inner surface of the lungs. The classic form, deservedly dreaded before the era of sulfa drugs and antibiotics, is caused by bacteria. The vast majority of these cases can now be cured by drug treatment. More puzzling to specialists in infectious diseases has been the viral variety that attacked the President. This may be caused by any one of scores of different viruses, from those responsible for the common cold and laryngitis to those associated with measles and influenza. Infections provoked by these viruses do not yield to any known drugs, since medication that would kill...
Actually, one common form of "viral" pneumonia is caused by an organism that is neither a bacterium nor a virus. Known as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, or the "Eaton agent" (named for its discoverer), it is the smallest free-living agent capable of infecting man. The microbe is best known for downing whole barracks or dormitories of victims at a time. One of the few advantages of having Mycoplasma pneumonia is that, like the bacterial forms, it is susceptible to attack by antibiotics...
President Nixon entered Bethesda Naval Hospital last night for treatment of what White House doctors diagnosed as viral pneumonia...