Word: epidemiologist
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...blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...
...then became a state epidemiologist and assistant director of the health department in New Mexico...
...Kirk, dealing with the problem next meant reporting the outbreak to the county infectious-disease nurses, who in turn reported to Gayle Miller, Wyoming's chief epidemiologist. Miller and her nurses knew immediately that even six cases meant an epidemic. They began canvassing the region to locate others who had been infected, and each time they found someone sick, they began interviewing that person, looking for a common source of infection. After a week they had 26 confirmed E. coli cases in four states, and the numbers seemed likely to grow...
Like Webster, virologists around the world were galvanized. The CDC, alerted by Claas, quickly tested its own copy of Lim's virus and confirmed the finding. In San Francisco, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, chief epidemiologist for the CDC's influenza section, was doing a clinical rotation at Mount Zion Hospital when he received an urgent call from the agency's head of surveillance. "Whenever you get a call like that," he says, "you know it's probably not great news." Shortridge was vacationing in England when his phone went wild. "The first thing that crossed my mind was, 'Is this...
...virus-bearing bugs have been found in eight counties, but only two people are known to have contracted the disease. In New York, there are still no reported cases. Yet where there's viral smoke, there may be fire, and doctors fear trouble. Said Dr. Jahangir Moini, a Florida epidemiologist: "We predict we're going to have an outbreak...