Word: diarrhea
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...scours are diarrhea. "I had some scour stopper in a bucket, but it was too late." Chester Hickle wandered back in, recalling a violent time, years ago, when a "man as innocent as you or me was over there in the cafe eating a bowl of soup or chili and they just shot him off the stool...
...David finally emerged from his sterile world, crawling through an air lock into his mother's waiting arms. But that brief reunion was clouded by worry: a persistent fever, diarrhea and vomiting had made it necessary for doctors to treat him outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted...
...well for David, whose surname has been kept secret by the hospital in order to protect his privacy. Doctors have not yet determined whether the transplant was a success, and his recovery has been marred by recurrent bouts of fever, diarrhea and nausea. He was released from his bubble so that doctors could more easily treat and diagnose these symptoms...
...talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
...students, from several different Houses, experienced nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhea, said Jessie A. Morton, sanitary inspector in the Environmental Health Services, who is in charge of determining the cause of the outbreak...