Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shingles? I recalled that my father had been afflicted by this strange ailment, but I knew little about shingles until I did some digging. I learned that shingles could be thought of as the revenge of the chicken pox, or of varicella-zoster, the virus behind this childhood disease. A close cousin of herpes simplex, which causes cold sores, varicella-zoster can be beaten back by the immune system but never eradicated. Like a bandit pursued by a posse, it retreats to a safe haven--bundles of nerve cells in the spinal cord or cranium. There varicella-zoster lies dormant...
...only cancer that can be at the root of fatigue. The sense that you're run down all the time can signal a host of undetected ailments, from gum disease and sinus infection to anemia and multiple sclerosis. Not every ailment can be cured, but many can be treated...
...Lyme disease isn't the only or even the deadliest tick-borne infection. Ever since 1986, when the first cases cropped up in the U.S., researchers have been keeping a watchful eye on a debilitating and sometimes fatal flu-like ailment called Ehrlichiosis. The infection is transmitted by the Lone Star tick in the southern half of the U.S. and the ever present deer tick in the north. It was once thought to afflict only dogs and horses, but four strains of bacteria that affect people have been identified in the past decade. Last week came word that a fifth...
ACHING WRISTS That bane of typists and others who spend long hours at the keyboard, carpal-tunnel syndrome, seems to be more common than originally thought. As many as 1 in 5 people who complain of tingling in their hands may have the ailment. The condition, which is a form of repetitive-stress injury, frequently occurs when the same motion is repeated over and over, compressing a nerve in the wrist, with all the painful consequences...
With 28-year-old HSING-HSING suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and LING-LING dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year...