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Eleanor A. Laun
Eleanor A. Laun, a combat nurse who served with the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II, died Jan. 10 of complications from a stroke at the Charlestown retirement community.
The longtime Ten Hills resident was 94.
Eleanor A. McNelis...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, France, Nursing, U.S. Army, World War II (1939-1945)
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French sailors still remembered, 73 years after their deaths
At the far back of St. Mary of the Assumption Cemetery in Homeland sits a cluster of little-known headstones for four French sailors who died in the Baltimore Harbor during World War I.
On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Baltimore District of the American Legion...Tags: Inner Harbor, Govans, Ceremonies, Epidemics and Plagues, France
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Life expectancy low, but growing in city
Women in large swaths of America are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of smoking and record obesity. Nationwide, life expectancy for American men and...Tags: San Francisco, Obesity, Poverty, Chicago, Delaware River
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Mild flu could hit harder in the fall
The number of swine flu cases in Mexico is stabilizing. In the U.S., though more people are being diagnosed with the virus, cases have been mostly mild, claiming two lives. And health officials have backed off on closing schools where students are sick....Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Argentina, Preventative Medicine, Kathleen Sebelius, Drugs and Medicines
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U.S. set to rush order of avian flu vaccine
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Mass production of a new vaccine that scientists believe can protect against an avian flu outbreak could begin as early as mid-September, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said yesterday. Dr....Tags: Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Children, Death, Flu
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Fears of flu pandemic spurring preparations
Sun StaffThey gathered around a hotel conference table in Howard County, planning for what might be Maryland's worst public health crisis. The public health and safety experts spun a shocking scenario arising from the threat of an avian flu pandemic from Asia:...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Viral Diseases and Infections, Guerrilla Activity, Medical Services, Employees
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Health reporters on the flu threat
Darlene Cook, Baltimore: If this flu is such a threat, shouldn't we avoid eating all birds and their products? How motivated are the producers to cull out their sick birds? Roylance: So far, the transmission of the avian flu virus from birds to humans...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Vaccines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemics and Plagues, Health Organizations
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Personal histories
During the late summer of 1918, Americans were gripped by news from the European front as World War I neared its end. They didn't dream that a larger, more deadly battle would soon be fought on U.S. soil.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed about 500,...Tags: Clarksville, Flu, Columbus, Babe Ruth, Defense
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'A splendid character'
Sick himself with influenza, one of Baltimore's most prominent doctors wrote a letter to the family of one of Baltimore's most promising researchers, fatally stricken as he tried to combat the 1918 influenza epidemic.
In the letter, William H. Welch, the...Tags: Baltimore Weather, Plastic Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics, Viral Diseases and Infections, San Francisco
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Aggressive steps to contain SARS working, experts say
Sun StaffEncouraged by successes in Vietnam and elsewhere, public health experts say that quarantines, border checks and other aggressive measures to contain SARS are working and may prevent it from becoming a persistent scourge. "It sure as hell can be...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons, Viral Diseases and Infections, World War I (1914-1918), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Six months to act -- the SARS epidemic
Special to SunSpotDr. Burke is professor of international health and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The most chilling moment of my medical career occurred in 1985, when I led a program to test incoming U.S. Army recruits for HIV,...Tags: AIDS, Viral Diseases and Infections, Epidemics and Plagues, Health Organizations, Flu
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