Fw: mmi Fw: [lymeinfo] Leo Bogart, 84, Sociologist Who Studied Role of Media in Culture, Is Dead

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I read this on Lymeinfo. I remember in August his wife being interviewed and he apparently had other fairly heavy conditions besides babesiosis, but it is interesting that the cause of death (according to his wife at least) is identified as Babesiosis.

Nelly

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/business/media/19bogart.htmlOctober 19, 2005Leo Bogart, 84, Sociologist Who Studied Role of Media in Culture, Is Dead By JULIE BOSMANLeo Bogart, a sociologist, author and marketing specialist who was known for studying the role of the mass media in culture, died Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 84.The cause of death was babesiosis, a parasitic disease that is transmitted by ticks, said his wife of 57 years, the former Agnes Cohen.Dr. Bogart, who also studied advertising and public opinion and wrote nearly a dozen books, argued that market forces should not be the sole determinant of media content. He decried the increasing presence of violence and sex in film and television, asserting in his most recent book, "Over the Edge," that advertisers degrade content through their desire to capture the youth market. He was an influential figure in the marketing and advertising industries. He served for many years as the executive vice president and general manager of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, the sales and marketing organization of the newspaper industry. He taught marketing at New York University, Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Media Studies at Columbia and a Fulbright research fellow in France.At his death, Dr. Bogart was a director and senior consultant for Innovation, an international media consulting firm, and wrote a column for Presstime, the magazine of the Newspaper Association of America. Dr. Bogart was born in Lwow, now Lvov, Poland, and moved to the United States with his family at age 2, eventually becoming fluent in seven languages. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1941, he joined the Army Signal Intelligence Corps. Fluent in German, he intercepted communications in Germany during World War II. He chronicled that experience in his memoir, "How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: From Brooklyn to Berchtesgaden in World War II." He earned a doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago.After checking into Mount Sinai on Aug. 7, Dr. Bogart learned that he had babesiosis, a malarialike infectious disease that destroys red blood cells. It is typically found in coastal islands of the Northeast, and Mrs. Bogart said her husband might have contracted it on a trip to the couple's home on Long Island. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Michele H. Bogart and Bogart; and one grandchild. ****Leo Bogart, R.I.P. (1921-2005)http://www.corante.com/rebuildingmedia/archives/037168print.htmlfrom Rebuilding Media by Vin CrosbieOctober 19, 2005Leo Bogart, R.I.P. (1921-2005)[Go to URL to view picture, captioned below]Leo Bogart, a Polish-born, former U.S. Army Intelligence officer in World War II, who later applied his talents for analysis to the media in general, and tried to reverse the decline of American media, died Saturday in Manhattan.During the 1960s, Dr. Bogart was among the first of analysts to detect and predict the since continuous declines in newspapers' readerships, television news viewerships, and radio news listenerships. He later lamented that the print media industry wasn't using methods of modern marketing analysis to stem those declines. He also argued that market forces shouldn't be the only determinant of media content.Author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of media trade journal articles (an example from 1996), Bogart was best known for applying scientific analysis on the editorial content of newspapers, magazines, and television and relating the results to readership and viewership.He served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau; taught marketing at New York University, Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology; and was a senior fellow at the Center for Media Studies at Columbia and a Fulbright research fellow in France. At the time of his death, Bogart was a director and senior consultant for Innovation, an international media consulting firm, and wrote a column for Presstime, the magazine of the Newspaper Association of America.The New York Times today reported that Bogart died ten weeks after being diagnosed with babesiosis, a tick-borne, malaria-like disease that destroys red blood cells. Rarely infecting humans, babesiosis is typically found in coastal islands of the Northeast U.S.

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Especially after 2.5 months in the hospital with a diagnosis.

There have actually been like a dozen hospital deaths due to B.

microti even at a single hospital in the hyperendemic area, over the

years. I found the paper on this in lymeRICK. But I think they were

all alot faster-evolving. It would be interesting to know if they

really couldnt control this guys babesia given 75 days to try, and why.

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> I read this on Lymeinfo. I remember in August his wife being

interviewed and he apparently had other fairly heavy conditions

besides babesiosis, but it is interesting that the cause of death

(according to his wife at least) is identified as Babesiosis.

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/business/media/19bogart.html

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Does anybody know if they tried exchange transfusion? Thats what

Krause recommends in serious cases, and so do a few others. Exchange

transfusion, and THEN treat the babs again when its #'s are so reduced.