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...urging of Powell and others, prioritized building a broad anti-terror coalition and the Iraq issue was relegated to the backburner - until the President's "axis of evil" speech earlier this year. That was the cue for a new round of speculation over a U.S. invasion, which reached fever pitch this summer as leaked war plans filled the headlines - a reflection of fierce bureaucratic infighting over the wisdom of going...
That doesn't mean you should ignore the West Nile virus. And public-health officials definitely need to update some of their long-forgotten plans for mosquito control. But it's not as if we're living in the 18th or 19th century, when mosquito-borne illnesses like yellow fever ravaged New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans. Back then, doctors didn't even know that mosquitoes were to blame, and there was certainly no vaccine--as there is now for yellow fever--to help control the spread of the disease...
John Lennon, 58, a cyberoptics technician in Manchester, N.H., caught balloon fever eight years ago. "It was everything and more that I thought it would be, and I knew I would eventually go on to become a pilot," he says. Now he not only has his license but also recently bought his first new balloon...
...FUNGAL FEVER Lethal fungus infections, once rare in the developed world, are spreading because of the rise of AIDS, chemotherapy and organ transplants. Antifungal drugs, however, often have terrible side effects. A new study shows that the drug voriconazole is more effective and results in fewer complications than standard treatments...
...virus, which has been found in more than 25 types of mosquitoes, is usually not serious; its most common symptoms include fever and a headache. For some, however, including those with weakened immune systems, as well as the very young and the elderly - although this assumption is under fire; the most recent infection, in Washington, D.C., is in a 55-year-old man - the virus can be deadly. That risk, slight as it is, has never been more evident than it has been this summer. To date, the Centers for Disease Control report 120 infections nationwide, as well as five...