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...spotted fever got its name for the good and simple reason that it was first identified as a distinct disease among residents of the mountain states. For years, however, a majority of the cases have occurred east of the Mississippi. Now a disproportionate number are being reported from Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
Misdiagnosis Likely. A New England research team, reports Microbiologist Edward S. Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, has studied 13 recent cases, two of them fatal. Six were on Cape Cod, five on Martha's Vineyard and one on Nantucket. The out-of-area case involved a man in Gloucester, Mass., 100 miles from the Cape. That was puzzling because no infected ticks had been found there. The doctors questioned the man closely. No, he had not been to the Cape. In fact, he had not been anywhere except out on the marsh, duck hunting. With...
...above is a three-dimensional picture in two dimensions showing the relative population density of the U.S North Atlantic coast. That peak in the middle is New York City, with Washington on the left and Boston on the right. Also shown are Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay, the mouth of the Delaware River, and the Long Island Sound (population zero...
...SACRED COD of Massachusetts, perhaps the last enduring symbol of the majesty of this Commonwealth, has been purloined from its pedestal in the Great and General Court. Perhaps, in this age of growing disrespect for law and decency, such an act is to be expected. But it cannot be condoned...
...Roosevelt biographer. Freidel, approached both by members of Afro and by the faculty committee last spring, abandoned his plans to teach a course this year on the New Deal and accepted the draft. After soliciting recommendations from black students and other faculty members, Freidel spent a summer on Cape Cod gathering together his lecture material and drawing up a reading list...