The executive chairman of the Drambuie Liqueur Company, Phil Parnell, has died after a short illness.

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Street's wife says he died on 27 February at a hospital in Las Vegas after a short illness.

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He died at a hospice near his home in Lytham St Annes on Sunday night, following a short illness.

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Colin McIntyre, who worked for the BBC for 30 years, died in hospital on Thursday after a short illness.

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Rolf W. Schnyder, CEO of Swiss watch manufacturer Ulysse Nardin, unexpectedly died on April 14 after a short illness.

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In the summer it was announced that Phil Parnell, the chief executive of the group had died after a short illness.

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Valerie Eliot, the widow and literary executor of poet TS Eliot, has died at home in London after a short illness, aged 86.

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Some only have a short-term illness, while around a third continue to have symptoms into adulthood - but it is hard to predict how an individual's illness will progress.

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Each has strengths and weaknesses and thus to monitor influenza activity in the United States, the CDC runs both a syndromic system (called ILInet, short for Influenza-like Illness network) and a virologic system (part of a larger system called NREVSS).

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She said Stephen's illness had cut short a promising career in the army.

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Last week, President Kaczynski cancelled a summit meeting with French and German leaders at short notice, claiming illness.

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