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She collapsed in her Hollywood Hills home gasping for breath and arrived at the third hospital unconscious. She died of sepsis caused by viral pneumonia and a staph infection. Guillaume Depardieu: French Actor 2008-10-13 Died at age 37 from pneumonia contracted on set in Romania. René Descartes: French philosopher, mathematician and scientist ...
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of as many as 50.
Clara Louise Maass was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to German immigrants Hedwig and Robert Maass. She was the oldest of ten children in a devout Lutheran family. [3] Clara's family was impoverished and to help alleviate the financial burden of one child on her family, she went to work as a "mother's helper" for a local woman while finishing high school after her family had failed in the ...
Ali Maow Maalin (Somali: Cali Macow Macallin; also Mao Moallim [1] and Mao' Mo'allim; [2] 1954 – 22 July 2013) was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, 84.2 million [64.0–113.0 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 40.1 million [33.6–48.6 million] people have died of HIV. Globally, 38.4 million [33.9–43.8 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2021.
The milk powder was used for feeding infants, and many babies were poisoned. By 1981, there were still >6,000 people affected as adults with severe mental retardation and other health effects; and by 2006, >600 adults remained affected. 1900: 1900 English beer poisoning: beer: arsenic: England >6,000 >70: Arsenic was introduced into beer via ...
The poet John Keats, here depicted by William Hilton c. 1822, died of tuberculosis aged 25. Tuberculosis, known variously as consumption, phthisis, and the great white plague, was long thought to be associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was also known as "the romantic disease". [2]
Although there was known to have been at least one case of AIDS in the U.S. from 1966, [269] the vast majority of infections occurring outside sub-Saharan Africa (including the U.S.) can be traced back to a single unknown individual who became infected with HIV in Haiti and brought the infection to the U.S. at some time around 1969. [252]