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...advisory urging faculty and students not to travel to those countries in which transmission of SARS was continuing. Within a few days of that alert, several of us were besieged by journalists from Toronto upset that their city had been cited by Harvard before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a travel alert. Later that afternoon, Toronto discovered 29 new cases and 500 people exposed, and later that week the tone of questions from the press changed to whether Harvard knew something that their health authorities did not. It is in the nature of epidemics to be unpredictable...
...order--especially for parents of young children. High levels of environmental lead have long been considered dangerous, but researchers now find that even low levels of lead in the blood--levels well below what used to be deemed safe by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--are associated with dramatic drops in IQ in young children. A study that tested children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years found that those with a blood-lead level of 10 mcg per deciliter (the CDC's current safety threshold) had, on average, a 7.4-points-lower IQ than...
...less contagious than measles or even the flu. "It's the type of disease that seems to require a lot of direct close contact with somebody who's pretty sick," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta...
Harvard’s advisory warned affiliates to refrain from traveling to China, Singapore and Vietnam, in accordance with precautions recommended by WHO and the Center for Disease Control (CDC...
...Obviously the safety of the members is of paramount importance.... We are in constant communication with our contact in Asia and also with people in the CDC,” Baker said. “We have developed a number of alternatives should the situation not improve...