Word: epidemiologist
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...disease, only to see the number of infections explode?mistakes that cost the mainland's top health official and the mayor of Beijing their jobs. "Because we had avoided what happened in Hong Kong and China we thought we had avoided an epidemic," says Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist who replaced Twu as Health Minister. "But now we have to be humble and admit that perhaps we were careless...
...April 3, 4 and 5, respectively, bringing the total number since the outbreak began to 800, with 20 deaths. Far from being contained, the disease appears to be gathering steam. "I don't think we should pack our books and go home early," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, chief epidemiologist for the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...Siegwart-Horst Günther, a German epidemiologist found Iraqi children playing with bullets and shells left over from the war. In tests, he found radiation levels 350 times higher than those produced by Uranium-238. Subsequently, one of those children died of leukemia and others suffered kidney failure and lacerations on their skin. Günther was arrested by the German government and jailed for two months for bringing such dangerous material into Germany...
...viruses--and they tend to break out whenever people congregate in close quarters for more than two or three days. Oceangoing pleasure ships provide excellent breeding grounds, but so do schools, hotels, camps, nursing homes and hospitals. "Whenever we look for this virus," says Dr. Marc Widdowson, a CDC epidemiologist, "we find it." Just last week 100 students (of 500) at the Varsity Acres Elementary School in Calgary, Alta., stayed home sick. School prank? Hardly. The Norwalk virus had struck again...
...least one strain of HPV--a key step in any campaign to eliminate cervical cancer, since practically all cervical tumors need an HPV infection to get started. The study was not designed to treat patients but rather to show that the vaccine approach works, notes Laura Koutsky, an epidemiologist from the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study. In other words, she says, "it's a proof of principle...