As a child she suffered measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox, doublepneumonia and eventually polio, leaving her left leg and foot weak and deformed.
When she was four years old she had doublepneumonia and scarlet fever - a deadly combination that left her with a paralyzed and useless left leg. She had to wear an iron leg brace.
Both the lung and lymph node tissues of patients with adenoviral pneumonia were observed, using a double-blinded meth, to determine the amount of inclusion bodies and function of the lymph nodes.