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Botulism is a bacterial infection that you connect with botox. it causes paralysis of the muscles. that is what happens if you get the bacterial infection. people get muscle weakness in the face. it can get pretty bad and affect the muscles of diaphragm so you no longer breathe on your own. someone could have a stroke. >> could you slip into a coma? >> lack of blood flow to the brain, that could cause a coma-like condition. a brain stroke which would look like a comb a. sleeping pill would not cause a comb coma. it doesn't make sense. nevertheless, with botulism, if you are on a breathing mach...

Timing and treatment, it is hard to piece it all together. >> it was hard to see that video of him coming off the plane on the stretcher. it is hard to know exactly what condition he is currently in. they say he is in a coma. can someone come out of it? >> if it has been over a year -- first of all, several things come to mind. you saw a tube in his nose, but didn't seem to have a breathing tube. it seems he has been fed, but wasn't requiring a breathing machine. that is all i can make out watching that video. the concern is if this has been over a year. that excludes the more, if you will, re...

Issue. dr. sanjay gupta, what do we know exactly about his condition right now and obviously, george h.w. bush, an older man, what does it is a that he keeps going back to the hospital dealing with pneumonia? >> we are told that he is essentially in the hospital being observed. he's not in the intensity care unit, it sounds like and he's in good spirits and that was a statement that was released not that long ago. different, as you point out, john, when he was in the hospital back in january. at that time it sounded like it was pneumonia, and a more severe case of pneumonia and he was in the i...

Putin is fighting for his life this morning. his wife tells cnn she believes he was poisoned, a technique, the kremlin has used in the past to silence critics. we want to get more now from cnn international correspondent ivan watson who spoke with kara-murza's wife. what is she saying about her husband? >> reporter: the good news is that he has emerged from the medically induced coma. as of today, he is off the breathing machine, but gravely ill. the family, friends and u.s. senator john mccain who called him a hero on the senate floor this week, they are suggesting he was poisoned now. take a...

Things. pneumonia obviously more serious. 92 years old, you and i have talked about this, you don't measure age in years always, but 92, his immune system is clearly going to be weaker. jamie and i talked about he had not previously been intubated, put on a breathing machine for pneumonia. he's had it in the past but never needed a breathing machine. cautiously optimistic. >> in terms of mrs. bush, how common is it for somebody to be hospitalized out of precaution? >> it sounds like there probably was enough -- you know, when they say out-precaution, probably a combination of enough to be hosp...