4th period
Harold Ramis died at age 69 on Monday, February 17th, 2014, 4 years after contracting vasculitis, a disease that attacks blood vessels, restricting flow to organs and tissue. "The disease that led to actor-director Harold Ramis' death is one of an often-mysterious family of maladies that can starve organs and cause painful tissue damage." Ramis had 15 variants of vasculitis which makes the identification of the precise cause of death very hard. Treatments usually involve steroids and "chemotherapy-like" drugs. Treatments for this disease are better now than they were before but doctors are still trying to make progress in treating it.
I had never heard of this disease before. It just goes to show that there are so many ways to get sick in the world. This sounds like such a terrible disease to die from. The fact that it shuts down organs and is very painful is very scary to think about.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/health/harold-ramis-disease-vasculitis/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Wow this is crazy, there's so many strange things in this world we don't know about!
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