How an 87-year-old’s lungs became filled with black, rubbery plugs — and he survived

How an 87-year-old’s lungs became filled with black, rubbery plugs — and he survived

Where there’s fire … there’s smoke. An 87-year-old man went to the emergency room for shortness of breath after inhaling thick smoke from a forest fire over several hours. What came next was something out of a sci-fi movie: thick, black, branch-like plugs were observed in the unidentified patient’s windpipe and lungs. An elderly man … Read more