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A scarlet fever epidemic in Richmond claimed the lives of his one-year-old daughter Mary Anne, his four-year-old son James, and six-year-old Augustus (" Gus "), all within a week.
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In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.
He investigated its positive anti-bacterial effect on many organisms, and noticed that it affected bacteria such as staphylococci and many other Gram-positive pathogens that cause scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis and diphtheria, but not typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever, which are caused by Gram-negative bacteria, for which he was seeking a cure at the time.
Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf ; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as " an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain ", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.
At the age of 9, Konstantin caught scarlet fever and became hard of hearing.
He was short and red-headed, and suffered from scarlet fever when young, which left him with a hearing impairment.
Diseases pasteurization can prevent include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever ; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157: H7, among others.
S. pyogenes, also known as Group A Streptococcus ( GAS ), is the causative agent in Group A streptococcal infections, including streptococcal pharyngitis (" strep throat "), acute rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, acute glomerulonephritis and necrotizing fasciitis.
However, rather than being directly invasive and inflammatory, it seems to cause local infection, but then its other actions are via toxins: whether affecting kidneys in post strep glomerulonephritis, heart valves in rheumatic fever, the scarlet skin of scarlet fever or dissolving tissue in necrotizing fasciitis.
The cause of his deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle-ear infections.
In 1926 it was shown that scarlet fever is caused by a bacterium that is infected by a certain bacteriophage.
* 1779 " An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina ; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 " Publ Cadell London
* 1793 " An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat ..." 2nd ed Publ Robinson, London
In addition, by the time she was twelve years old she had also survived bouts of polio and scarlet fever.
He sustained a sprained ankle in early May which sidelined him until June and then was ill with scarlet fever for a whole month from 10 July to 10 August.
* December 29 – Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg ( b. 1797 ) ( scarlet fever )
The disease is probably streptococcus or a form of scarlet fever with streptococcus pneumoniae ( approximate date ).
Each brother graduated at the head of his class: Jacob in 1803 and Wilhelm ( who missed a year of school due to scarlet fever ) in 1804.
scarlet and epidemic
As a result of preventive efforts, such epidemic diseases as cholera, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever have almost been eradicated.
# Elizabeth Woolsey was born November 30, 1835, but died in the same scarlet fever epidemic on the same day as her two brothers.
# William Walton Woolsey was born June 12, 1840, and died in the 1843 scarlet fever epidemic.
In 1878, a daughter, Bertha, was born and, two years later, a son Horatio, who died in an epidemic of scarlet fever.
He often thought that the dream of becoming a doctor could have first been formed at the age of eight when his family was involved in an epidemic of scarlet fever.
In the spring of 1847 in Manchester there was a scarlet fever epidemic known as ' ship fever ', and Eveline took the child Ella and returned to Woodstock.
scarlet and claimed
Bonnore's Electro Magnetic Bathing Fluid claimed to cure cholera, neuralgia, epilepsy, scarlet fever, necrosis, mercurial eruptions, paralysis, hip diseases, chronic abscesses, and " female complaints.
scarlet and lives
Her sister, Lucy Aldrich, who was nearly completely deaf ( at the time thought because of a childhood bout of scarlet fever, now believed to be the result of waardenburg syndrome, a genetic anomaly found in several generations of the Aldrich family ), would be one of her closest friends throughout their lives, and is believed to have fostered Abby's interest in American folk art.
scarlet and daughter
The second child, daughter Sophie Helena, born in 1914, died in 1928 of scarlet fever.
A year later his eldest daughter Bedřiška, who at the age of four was showing signs of musical precocity, died of scarlet fever.
In March 1907 he had resigned his conductorship of the Vienna State Opera, as the musical community in Vienna turned against him ( which was why he chose Prague for the work's debut ); on 12 July his first daughter died of scarlet fever ; and, even as she lay on her deathbed, Mahler learnt that he was suffering from an incurable heart condition.
A young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms, and on the breast of her gown " a rag of scarlet cloth " that " assumed the shape of a letter.
Hester supports herself by working as a seamstress, and her daughter, Pearl, grows into a willful, impish child, and is said to be the scarlet letter come to life as both Hester's love and her punishment.
His eldest daughter Maria died from scarlet fever and diphtheria.
The poignancy of the cycle is increased by the fact that four years after he wrote it, Mahler lost his daughter, Maria, aged four, to scarlet fever.
Gardiner Hubbard's daughter Mabel became deaf at the age of five from scarlet fever.
scarlet and Mary
The story begins when the family is about to leave Plum Creek, shortly after the family has recovered from the scarlet fever which caused Mary to become blind.
His siblings, Richard Ashton and Caroline Mary Lightoller, both died of scarlet fever in early childhood.
scarlet and Anne
In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters, and her health thereafter declined ; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis.
Anne declines his proposal and returns to Green Gables, where she learns that Gilbert is ill with scarlet fever.
Anne does not appear in the Avonlea episode because she is sick with scarlet fever.
The Continuing Story, which takes place five years later, attempts to resolve the discontinuity by revealing that Anne had scarlet fever while she was teaching at an orphanage in Nova Scotia.
scarlet and son
A second son, born in the winter of 1864 while Georgiana was gravely ill with scarlet fever, died soon after birth.
In December of that year their son was taken ill with scarlet fever while on holiday in Brighton.
On a visit to St. Tudno's Church on the Great Orme and passing through the graveyard, his five year old son said: " Mamma, when I am dead, I want to be buried here " and so he was just a week later, the victim of scarlet fever.
The second son died young from scarlet fever and the oldest, an aspiring hockey goaltender whom Terry idolized, died suddenly of a heart attack at age seventeen.
Mr and Mrs Gaskell visited the village and spent some time there on their wedding tour ; on another later visit in 1844 it was at the inn there that their young son William caught scarlet fever, from which he died.
Darwin was overwrought by a deepening crisis of illness of his baby son Charles Waring Darwin, who died of scarlet fever on 28 June.
Her third son Richard died of scarlet fever aged four.
When their 3 year old son died of scarlet fever they were badly affected.
Victor was born in Naples, Italy, and is the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, who died of scarlet fever when Victor was young.
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