Reuters

Up to 2 million Americans develop the clots each year, usually because of inactivity, cancer or dehydration.
The condition has been known to afflict passengers on long airline flights, and such a clot claimed the life of NBC television news reporter David Bloom in 2003 when he was covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq (news - web sites).

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