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...recovering from a rare and potentially lethal disease called Sabia virus. Before 1990, the illness was unknown to medicine. Then a woman in the town of Sabia, Brazil, died from a mysterious virus that had evidently been circulating in local rodents for years before making an assault on humans. Brazilian doctors sent samples to Yale, and a month ago the scientist became infected when he accidentally broke a container holding the virus. Health officials point out that it is not easily passed between humans, but some 80 people who came into contact with the man have been under observation...
...move. Although he would not realize it for about a week, the scientist -- his name has not been officially released -- had been infected with the mysterious Brazilian Sabia virus. Soon after he got back to Yale, he was running a fever that reached 103F. An experimental antiviral drug eventually stopped the illness, but the man had exposed five people, including two children, before being confined to a hospital isolation ward, and another 75 or so health-care workers after that. All of them are under observation. While the patient slowly recovered last week, Yale officials had to decide whether...
...while some other arenaviruses have been known to doctors for at least two decades, Sabia was never seen before 1990. In that year, a female agricultural engineer checked into a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a high fever. Within days she was dead. Brazilian scientists tried to identify the infectious agent; one of their number fell ill and nearly died in the process. But they could determine only that it was a member of the arenavirus clan, so they sent a sample on to Yale for further identification...
Come next Super Bowl, most Americans will not remember the name of the Brazilian player who elbowed American star Tab Ramos in the head, sending him to the hospital with a concussion. (For future bar bets, it's Leonardo.) But they will remember that Bebeto's and Romario's skills with a soccer ball rival the gifts Michael Jordan brought to basketball. The ball did everything they told...
...Please, We're Brazilian: Brazilians have spent the past several weeks arguing about whether their team should have sex while in America (the debate isn't about safety; it's about on-field performance). When soccer legend Pele weighed in on the pro-sex side, coach Carlos Parreira, who had said spouses could not accompany the team, changed his mind: "We are not going to lose the Cup because...