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Orange County was almost as hard-hit; then the epidemic spread through Santa Cruz and Santa Clara to the Bay Area and Sacramento, until an estimated 4,000,000 Californians were laid low with fever, headache, cough, sore throat and aching muscles. Inevitably, in a few cases the flu led to pneumonia, mostly among infants or oldsters whose health was poor to begin with. Among the other victims was Susan Ann Lombardo, 26, the bandleader's niece. There was no way to tell when the California epidemic would pass its peak...
Agrypnia Insomnia Cephalalgia Headache Cholelithiasis Gallstones Deglutition Swallowing Emesis Vomiting Hemorrhage Bleeding Obese Fat Pyrexia Fever Respire Breathe Carrying her criticism right to the end (not "termination") of life, Dr. DeBakey thinks "in extremis is a pretentious expression for dying...
...caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
...through the long plane trip home from Viet Nam last September, Columnist Marguerite Higgins was violently ill. Her body ached; her fever flared as high as 105 degrees. At home, intermittent bouts of pain and fever drained her strength, but she continued to write three columns a week. In early November she had to be hospitalized at Walter Reed. Doctors at first thought that she had picked up the drug-resistant malaria that has reached almost epidemic proportions in Viet Nam. Later, they suspected she might have cancer. But an exploratory operation uncovered nothing, and meanwhile her condition continued...
...virus as its possible cause. Named for British-born Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, 53, who first described its prevalence and unusual distribution, it attacks children regardless of race, in high-rainfall, equatorial areas of low altitude. The geography of the disease is strikingly similar to that of yellow fever. And yellow fever has long been recognized as a viral infection carried by a mosquito...