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What are the symptoms? The illness usually begins with a fever of 38C or higher (sometimes with chills), headache, body aches and malaise. Patients develop a dry cough and difficulty breathing; some get diarrhea. Most people start to recover after five or six days. If you don't have symptoms, can you still infect others? It's possible. Researchers don't know enough about SARS to say for sure, but in general, viruses can be passed on for several days before symptoms appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Europe Be Next? | 4/6/2003 | See Source »

Swimmers could emerge from the waves with symptoms such as severe diarrhea and intestinal pain, the article said...

Author: By Caroline L. Donchess, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FDO Warns First-Years About Beach Bacteria | 3/20/2003 | See Source »

Flash forward 34 years, and Norwalk-like viruses (there's a whole family of them) are all over the news as one ocean liner after another limps into port with passengers complaining of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and cramping. The CDC, which gets called in whenever more than 2% of a vessel's passengers come down with the same disease, identified Norwalk as the infectious agent and oversaw thorough ship scrubbings--which, to the dismay of the owners of the cruise lines, haven't made the problem go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising for Trouble | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...started in October 1961, and 133 days later he had lost 26 pounds and developed megaloblastic anemia, a condition that causes weakness, fatigue, headache, loss of appetite and diarrhea...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maverick Folic Acid Researcher Dies at 75 | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...about 100 students and teachers fell ill with various symptoms of vomiting, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea; a handful were rushed to the hospital. The culprit? Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that resides in the intestines of animals but is usually killed when meat is properly prepared. In a report titled "An Uninvited Guest at Turkey Day," state inspectors found that Little Woods' cooks did not monitor the temperature of the turkeys as they cooked. The officials also noted some other uninvited guests: an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen. "It's bad enough that we have to think about safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flunking Lunch | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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