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...recorded history, no disease has jumped the species barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic, and then never threatened us again?not without the discovery of a vaccine or cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just...
...another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the jump. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published that could impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population or at least limit contact between humans and this animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold among humans. But as long as there were no new cases in Guangdong, then perhaps he had time to fast-track his paper and get it published...
...Officials at the Guangdong CDC, while confident that culling the civets was necessary, are not totally convinced that this will curtail an outbreak. They have ordered a further extermination of rats?a much more elusive target?because of evidence that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong, observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal...
...signatories—who also sent copies to the officers and reunion co-chairs of their class, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella Rapier and Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone—leverage their financial power in the letter, threatening to curtail their giving to the University unless it reconsiders the issues they raise...
Advocates of the proposed system said it will curtail medical malpractice costs, which have contributed to a 77 percent rise in Massachusetts malpractice insurance premiums in the last five years...