Although drugs apparently worked against the infection, the illness touched off other problems, culminating in pneumonia.
A year earlier, government wildlife biologists began recording a mysterious illness killing off seals, as well as avian cholera.
The Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, 75, whose recent illness set off debate over succession, said in remarks broadcast Thursday that he would not bequeath power to his son.
Smith concludes that his anxieties about mental illness shut off his empathic faculties and made him dismissive of electroshock patients' grievances.
The more we bring our pets into our lives and let them help us recover from illness, stave off anxiety or depression, and become our very best four-legged friends, the more acutely their inevitable loss will be felt.
—Planning your next major illness for off-peak times (see "Early Bird Bargains") can save you money.
In the old days — before Social Security, welfare and Medicaid — poverty-caused illnesses killed off or incapacitated some of the people who could not find jobs.
These study findings suggest that the incidence of acute illness from off-target pesticide drift exposure was relatively low during 1998 2006 and that most cases presented with low-severity illness.
The specific question wording in 1979 is "Does your employer make health insurance available to you? Medical, surgical, or hospital insurance that covers injuries or major illnesses off the job?" I code respondents one if they report this offer, and zero otherwise.
