Word: fever
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...celebrity at Cambridge’s Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Huron Avenue, where the sounds of stomping feet and fiddle music fill the air every Thursday night from 8 to 11 p.m. This evening he has brought along a group of students ready to catch the contra fever...
...white coffin of Kaptan Boonmanuj, 6, is installed in the front room of his family's farmhouse in western Thailand. A framed photo shows Kaptan in his school uniform; nearby, someone has parked his little bicycle. Kaptan fell ill a few days after the New Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly...
Though thousands of people skipped work and school due to “Patriots Fever,” those working in the parade district pressed their faces against the office windows overlooking the procession and rally. A construction crew, renovating a building three blocks away from City Hall, perched on the scaffolding around the 20th story for a bird’s eye view of the various speeches...
...What are the symptoms if you catch bird flu? They range from fever, sore throat, cough, and muscle aches to eye infections, pneumonia, and acute respiratory distress...
...roll through the chicken population, possibly mutating and becoming more pathogenic as it goes. The culprit this time is the same as in Hong Kong in 1997: the H5N1 influenza virus. Historically, this virus has wreaked havoc mainly on poultry. Among chickens, the disease manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, turning a pen of healthy birds into a bloody mass of goop and feathers within 24 hours. Since the 1960s, each reported appearance of the disease has drawn a rapid response from international health officials concerned more about the potential for human infection than the loss of a few feathered...