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Unfortunately, the debate over chronic Lyme has become so heated that no one expects the controversy to go away. But both sides may take comfort in the other findings that were released by the New England Journal last week. After studying 482 subjects bitten by deer ticks in a part of New York with a lot of Lyme disease, researchers concluded that a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline dramatically cut the risk of contracting the disease. That good news is tempered somewhat by the fact that 80% of patients who develop the infection don't remember ever being bitten...
...just me, because I've heard about these stories. People get bitten by things and then six weeks later the thing has died and then what do you do? And because, you've got to remember, I work with a lot of infectious disease people through AMFAR, so when we're sitting around shooting the shit I hear a lot of stories about a lot of things. So I knew from my conversations with them that this was the thing...
...goodness, Jonas made quite the save on that one," RPI Coach Dan Fridgen said. "Down an out, threw down the cross, and it caught his arm. Talk about snake-bitten. What else...
...gritty win over the snake-bitten Engineers was exactly what the doctor ordered, giving Harvard it's first season sweep over R.P.I. since the 1995-96 season, and senior goaltender Oli Jonas's second shutout of the season...
...Survivor"'s on-site physician, Adrian Cohen, told People magazine that participants were also up against five species of deadly snakes, "all of them... incredibly mean." Which is an overstatement, says Lilley. The snakes, particularly the brown snake and the taipan, can be vicious (and three crew members were bitten during production) but mostly the problems come in the summer. The series was filmed in the rainy season, making for sleepy, sluggish reptiles who would almost certainly slink away as soon as they sensed the vibrations of footsteps. And those nasty, man-eating crocodiles we keep seeing during the opening...