Kidney failure wasn't a feature of SARS, and in general is unusual for a respiratory illness, he said.
Several studies have also linked the drug to mental health problems, such as depression and schizophrenia, and respiratory illness.
"I think that this is a perfectly reasonable thing for someone with a respiratory illness to do, " he said.
One White House official noted that respiratory illness attributed to air pollution is the No. 1 cause of death in China.
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The respiratory illness causes pneumonia, can attack the kidneys and other organs.
Already, pollution has made respiratory illness the leading health problem in China.
It also corrodes our lungs, causing respiratory illness and bronchitis and asthma.
My idea is to take abandoned shipping containers and turn them into direct-care clinics that take on frontline infectious diseases--HIV, TB, cholera, child respiratory illness.
It blamed demand on a prolonged winter increasing respiratory illness cases.
Both are cancer patients but opioids are equally needed to help patients with a range of other debilitating conditions such as heart failure, kidney and respiratory illness and neurodegenerative disorders.
Hospitals in Singapore report a rise in respiratory illness.
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In January 2011, President Barack Obama signed the Zadroga Act, named after New York Police Detective James Zadroga, who died of a respiratory illness after working at the World Trade Center site.
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ATLANTA Global health authorities are hunting for cases of a mysterious viral respiratory illness that killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another who traveled there in intensive care in a U.K. hospital.
It took the Bush Administration 16 months to acknowledge what scientists have known for more than a decade: the same pollution--primarily from fossil fuels--that causes asthma and respiratory illness is also altering and warming the atmosphere.
Doctors told him she had died from a respiratory illness but he believes that it was exposure to formaldehyde that killed her - although there is no proof her death was linked to living in the trailer.
Enormous quantities of air pollution from burning forests led to a dramatic rise in the number of cases of eye irritation, respiratory illness and cardiovascular disease -- examples of the unexpected public health surprises which become more likely in a warming world.
They found that 48 percent of beverages obtained from soda fountains contained coliform bacteria, 11 percent contained E. coli (which are mostly harmless, but some can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness and pneumonia), and 17 percent had Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (which could sicken newborns or adults with weakened immune systems).
"If they start out with a lower level to begin with, because they've been compromised as a child, then the time at which they're at greater susceptibility for respiratory illness could be earlier in age and, potentially, as they get older, " said James Gauderman, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at USC.
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Ragpickers suffer from dreadfully high levels of illness, especially respiratory diseases.
"Yes, there are possibilities of acquiring illnesses on airplanes, if you're sitting next to, or close to, somebody who has an illness that may be transmitted through the respiratory route, such as measles or the common cold, " Kozarsky says.
He also was treated for an acute respiratory infection in 2011, among other recurrent bouts of illness.
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The illness typically began with high fevers followed by respiratory or neurological problems, with rapid deterioration of respiratory functions.
At the time, both sectors had been hit by the effects of the war in Iraq, a so-so economy and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The latter, a viral illness first reported in Asia, was blamed for 774 deaths in 2003 and whipped up fears that aircraft cabins were prone to contagion.
Whooping cough, an illness caused by the pertussis bacteria, can cause severe respiratory symptoms and even death in young infants.
If someone got sick after the shot, it's because of a coincidental illness caused by the scores of other non-influenza viruses that can cause similar upper respiratory symptoms.
It also said that people living in poorly-heated homes would face fewer problems with asthma and respiratory problems, also saving money for the NHS and for employers who would have less absence through illness.
The Cambodia Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization said in a joint statement Wednesday that the unknown respiratory disease also involved neurological symptoms, and that only one of 62 children admitted to hospitals with the illness survived.
It has been estimated that one in three pilgrims suffers respiratory symptoms during the pilgrimage, and overcrowding (in tents accommodating up to 100 people) provides ideal conditions for illness to spread.
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