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Article: Pneumonia is on the rise. (symptoms, diagnosis, treatment)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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The death of Jim Henson in May 1990 was shocking news. Everywhere, people felt deeply sad about the loss of the man who had created the Muppets and given Kermit the Frog his cheerful voice.
Henson died from a raging infection of a particularly deadly strain of pneumonia. His sudden death focused attention on a disease that today is seldom thought of as fatal. Pneumonia was the country's leading cause of death until the mid-1930s. In the late '30s, the introduction of antibiotics helped bring the disease under control. Recently, however things have changed.
A Concern Again
Today, pneumonia--ranked together with influenza--is the country's ...