This article says that Sweating sickness could have been caused by Hantavirus:
I had a delphinium that was just beautiful, but I was advised by a friend that it might get feasted upon by gastropods. Hence, if one is to collect snails for dinner, it is best not to scarf them down right away but to keep them alive for a week or so in order to purge toxins from their systems. If the sweating sickness victims had been dining on little slimy critters, you could well be on the right track.
Well, FMTT ([something] me to tears), there is this musical riff that appears in numerous cartoons (old warner bros in particular) that signifies butterflies and daisies and sunshine in the meadow, you know, just sweetness and light, and I had no idea what its origin was. Turns out, it comes from the middle section of the William Tell Overture, which bridges into the more recognizable masked man part.
I guess this is what happens (obscure reference) when you find a stranger in the alps.
And famously, the score to “Bambi meets Godzilla”.
The other classical ‘peaceful meadow sunrise’ piece is the Morning Mood portion of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite.
I just bought this car last week!
Platypuses use that flat, paddle-like tail to carry nesting materials.
The “Storm” section just before the “morning” section from The William Tell Overture is often used in cartoons to indicate.a storm.
Whoa, I never would have guessed that. I’d assumed that it was for propulsion while swimming.
Mysterioso Pizzicato is often used in cartoons as a “sneaky villain” theme. But it’s not really a classical piece; it was composed around 1914 specifically as incidental music for silent films as a villain theme.
Entry of the Gladiators is usually used as a “circus” theme today, but it was composed as a serious military march in 1897.
Also the into to the Sonics’ “Strychnine”.
I just learned that Matthew Garber, a child actor who appeared in The Three Lives of Thomasina, Mary Poppins, and The Gnome-Mobile, died in 1977 at the age of only 21. According to a FB post, he contracted hepatitis from eating ‘bad meat’ on a trip to India. According to Wikipedia, citing “About Matthew Garber (a.k.a. Michael Banks)”, Realclassics[dot]com, he died of haemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis after the hepatitis spread to his pancreas.
Damn, child actors from that era did not fare well. 
Some succumbed to addiction, some just went on to live non-acting lives.
Dying from eating bad meat is just bizarre.
Not really true, though. Cathy Garver (Cissy) and Johnny Whitaker (Jody) from Family Affair are in fact still acting, while Anissa Jones (Buffy) OD’d at age 18. That is a 2-to-1 success rate (Sebastion Cabot, by contrast, stroked out at 59, and Brian Keith offed himself not long after his own daughter died).
I was fairly good friends with Crispin Glover from the ages of 14-17. His dad Bruce was a working actor with a successful career. Crispin wanted to be an actor from a very young age but Bruce saw what happened to enough kids that he wouldn’t allow it aside from community theater or school productions. He said that if he was still interested at 16 he’d get him an agent and he could start then.
In a bit of irony, Bruce passed away yesterday and Crispin just announced it. He was an incredibly kind and interesting man.
According to imdb, Bruce passed away two and a half weeks ago.
You’re correct. It was just announced a couple of hours ago for whatever reason