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...DIED. ROGER STRAUS JR., 87, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent co-founder of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...
...Connor anticipates that within the next two to three years, a medical self-diagnosis kit, similar to a home pregnancy test, will be available to travelers. Along with the kit might come medication that one can take if a blood or urine test comes up positive for such diseases as malaria. Products like this are already in use in Germany and parts of Asia...
...typhoid fever, it pays to chat with your doctor about immunization before you board your next flight. "We're looking at vaccines in a whole new way, to be able to help travelers as much as we can in whatever destination they are going to," says Dr. Bradley Connor, president of the International Society of Travel Medicine and medical director of the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine in Manhattan...
...protect travelers. For instance, over the past two years, outbreaks of pneumonia in less developed parts of the world have made it essential for travelers 50 and older to be vaccinated against the disease. (In the past, the vaccination had been largely recommended only for those over 65, says Connor.) They should also be immunized against hepatitis A and B, which can now be done in a combination vaccine that is administered in three doses, rather than the five injections required if the vaccines are given separately. For those visiting locales where malaria is a concern, the latest antimalarial treatments...
Despite the somewhat unfortunate results, O’Connor says he won’t have a quick hook...