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...feels like the worst case of Montezuma's revenge you've ever had. Stomach cramps. Vomiting. Diarrhea that persists for days, if not weeks. The culprit? It could be raw vegetables, a fruit salad or those juicy fresh strawberries you just ate. At least that's what health officials were saying last week, when they announced that over the past two months a few hundred people in the U.S. and Canada have been stricken with a new and mysterious intestinal infection. So far, no deaths have been reported, although a few people have been hospitalized for severe dehydration. But what...
...advising consumers to wash fresh fruit and vegetables especially thoroughly before eating them. That should help dislodge the protozoa, although it's no guarantee it will. People with weakened immune systems--AIDS patients and anyone undergoing chemotherapy--are advised to avoid strawberries altogether. Children and the elderly suffering intense diarrhea should be watched with particular care; they can quickly become dangerously dehydrated...
...either of which could have caused his famous deafness; the former would be an especially juicy find, since mercury in those days was used to treat syphilis, which some scholars think Beethoven may have had. They'd also like to know if he took any medicine for the terrible diarrhea he reportedly suffered; his hair might reveal that too. It won't help anyone better appreciate the Ninth Symphony. But it might make for some highbrow gossip...
Last week it happened again. The problem centered once more on a shipment of macaques sent by the same Philippine supplier. One monkey from the shipment was discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...
...critics stress potential problems. Calling olestra a "public-health time bomb," Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest predicted that "it will cause everything from diarrhea to cancer, heart disease and blindness." If only there were a product that could strip the fat from the inflated claims of both sides...