Word: epidemiologist
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...closing swimming pools and water parks an hour before sunset, when the skeeter dinner bell usually sounds. On Long Island, officials considered similar action, including closing parks until the danger subsides. Though the alert is, so far, more scare than scourge, nobody dismisses it. Says Dr. David Graham, an epidemiologist for New York's Suffolk County: "We want to take precautions...
...aboutwhether the government, apart from issuing warnings about cooking meat properly (160[degrees] for a standard patty), does enough to ensure food safety. Nicole Schlegelmilch got sick in early July, but, her mother Ann complains, "I didn't hear from the health department until Aug. 9." And the hospital epidemiologist said Nicole's illness was the first the hospital knew of an E. coli outbreak--although it had been several weeks since that suspect patty was turned in by the first victim. Why did officials take so long to interview E. coli victims, and why didn't hospitals know...
These aren't the usual dog-bites-man stories. They are signs of a growing epidemic. According to Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, an epidemiologist with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and author of a report released three weeks ago on the problem, dog attacks eclipse measles, mumps and whooping cough combined as a health threat to children. The number of dog bites that caused people to seek medical care increased from 585,000 in 1986 to 800,000 in 1994, a 37% jump during a period in which the dog population rose less than 2%, to 55.8 million...
...Cagle, whose face was mangled by the bomb, was almost hysterical on the stand. "I lost my job, my honor," he said, "and my grandsons have to see me like this!" A surgeon told of resorting to his pocketknife to amputate the leg of Daina Bradley. Sue Mallonee, an epidemiologist, explained the injuries seen in pictures shown to the jury: dozens of lacerations on Fred Kubasta's back; the severed jugular vein, carotid artery and esophagus of Polly Nichols (miraculously, she lived...
Others to be honored include epidemiologist William H. Foege (Doctor of Science); Class Day speaker and music producer Quincy D. Jones Jr. (Doctor of Music); playwright Arthur Miller (Doctor of Letters); Princeton geophysicist W. Jason Morgan (Doctor of Science); and economist Janet L. Norwood (Doctor of Laws...