Pneumonitis that goes unnoticed or untreated can cause irreversible lung damage. In normal lungs, the air sacs stretch and relax with each breath. Chronic inflammation of the thin tissue lining each air sac causes scarring and makes the sacs less flexible.
Jim Nabors, the actor who brought to life to lovable character Gomer Pyle on two CBS sitcoms, has died. He was 87. Nabors, an Alabama native, began his career as a cabaret performer in Los Angeles when he was discovered by Andy Griffith, who approached Nabors to play a new character on his eponymous sitcom in 1962.
proved so popular that in 1964 CBS starred him in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Newsmakers and celebrities who died in 2017. In the spinoff, which lasted five seasons, Gomer left his hometown of Mayberry to become a Marine recruit.