Word: ailments
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...Vietnam, the third country to acknowledge the presence of bird flu (after South Korea and Japan) in December, had outbreaks as far back as July. Birds started dropping dead in Thailand in early November, but the government insisted until last week that the chickens merely had a bacterial ailment. Heavily populated Indonesia has been hard hit but refused to cull any of its flocks until last week...
...Spell of the Phoenix The latest Harry Potter book has had an unexpected effect on young fans. Pediatrician Howard J. Bennett, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported an outbreak of headaches among children reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Bennett attributed their ailment - which he dubbed "Hogwarts headaches" - to the eight-hour reading sessions the young enthusiasts put in as they plowed through the 870-page tome. Fortunately, the symptoms clear up a day or two after the patient finishes the book...
...right now no time table has been set for his return to action. Junior Garrett Schires makes his third consecutive start in his place tomorrow against Dartmouth....Sophomore running back Ryan Tyler’s status for tomorrow’s game is in doubt due to a stomach ailment the rusher sustained last Friday evening. After practicing through his sprained ribs in the week leading up to last Saturday’s game against Princeton, Tyler came down with a case of pancreatitis and was sidelined as a result....Junior defensive end Doug Bennett returns to action this weekend...
...pregame Maori war-dance, the haka, his opposite that day, Rory Underwood - in a moment of folly - enraged Lomu by winking at him. It's history that Lomu went on to score four tries - and Underwood lost skin and pride in various futile attempts to stop him. A kidney ailment will keep Lomu out of the Cup, but the All Blacks have a new generation of Goliaths in the current squad, men like Tana Umaga and Brad Thorn...
...stranger to exotic diseases, including river blindness and sleeping sickness. Missionaries first encountered nodding disease in 1997, but locals say it's been around since the '80s. Its spread was likely helped by the 20-year-old civil war; perhaps when Sudanese refugees with no immunity contracted the ailment. Nodding disease has so far been found only in a small area, where a 2002 survey...