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...right. The CDC has now confirmed that 24 people have died of Legionnaires' disease in 19 states since the Philadelphia epidemic. It also suspects there may be as many as 2,000 undetected cases a year. Though scientists believe that the culprit is a slow-growing, rod-shaped (as yet unnamed) bacterium, they do not know where it lives in nature, how it spreads or why it is so lethal. Only one thing seems sure. The bug was almost certainly around, even if misdiagnosed, long before the Legionnaires gathered for their ill-fated convention in Philadelphia...
...months ago demonstrators had inveighed against Teng's counterrevolutionary treachery. Rejoicing at Teng's comeback, they waved thousands of flags, pounded cymbals, beat drums, blew on trumpets and set off rockets and fireworks. In Shanghai, a city that last April had featured posters saying HANG THE CULPRIT TENG, 500,000 people turned out to celebrate his escape from the gallows. At the same time, Peking television showed film clips of China's new ruling troika. At Chairman Hua Kuo-feng's right hand sat Teng; at Hua's left was Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying...
Frank Lamentea, assistant business manager of the University Library, said yesterday he has been questioning employees for the past two days but added he doubts he will be able to find the culprit. "I don't think anyone would know if he did anything wrong," he said...
...Internal Medicine, the Yale doctors point out that European doctors have long known of a tick-borne infection called erythema chronicum migrans; it is characterized by a similar reddening, although it has so far never been associated with arthritis. Now the Yale researchers will concentrate on finding the culprit, presumably a tick-borne virus. That should lead to a better understanding of-if not a cure for -Lyme arthritis and also shed light on other forms of the painful disease...
...gotten all 800s on every test. It's funny the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that he was an All-American soccer player. "There was just too many things he was claiming to do that hadn't been done," Jewett says about the rejected culprit...