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What famous person has died from a bacterial or viral illness?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 11/14/2022

Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, contracted pneumonia, and the infective organism turned out to be that really bad flesh-eating type of bacteria according to the obituary I read when he died. It ran rampant through his system, and there was little they could do.

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∙ 14y ago

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