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...rates. Also, the women increased their average consumption of fruits and vegetables only slightly, from four to five servings a day. "Maybe if we had gotten up to seven or so, on average, we would have been in a better place," says Shirley Beresford, a study leader and an epidemiologist at the University of Washington...
...many canes in evidence for a group so comparatively young--the legacy of joints wrecked by years of undertreated diabetes--and too many bad hearts and bum livers and vascular systems fighting hypertension. "This is the first generation to have a high incidence of using recreational drugs," says SAMHSA epidemiologist Joseph Gfroerer. "All this puts them at risk for problems...
...loud, officious-seeming, irascible man in a safari suit, his hair carefully oiled. The visiting writer tries to sidle away, but soon his obstreperous neighbor is sharing his complaints with him. Only as they continue talking does Ghosh begin to realize that the man is, in fact, an epidemiologist, and has lost his wife, his daughter, the whole careful life he has built up, in the tragedy. The loudness, Ghosh comes to recognize, is only a lament for what words cannot convey...
...phenomenon. It's just emerging," epidemiologist L. Clifford McDonald of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Washington Post, one of the first publications to give the disease significant coverage. "We know it's happening, but we're really not sure why it's happening or where this is going...
...Hong Kong microbiologist Kennedy] Shortridge is convinced that the avian virus is still circulating in the environment. "I don't think we're out of the woods yet," says Shortridge. [Centers for Disease Control epidemiologist Keiji] Fukuda agrees: "You would be a fool to predict what the virus is going to do next. I'm equally prepared for this thing to disappear as I am to hear one day when I walk into the office, 'Oh, did you hear? There's another 10 cases-or 100 cases.'" -TIME...