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...Smallpox is a serious, highly contagious infectious disease. There are two forms of smallpox: variola major, which is the most severe and common form, manifests as a widespread, distinctive rash and high fever; and variola minor, which is far less common and also less dangerous. Variola major generally kills about 30 percent of its victims. The virus can be spread by bodily contact or by coughing...
...senior, Erlich has had to juggle his business with his Government thesis on leftist movements in the post-Cold War era, focusing on Haiti. Sometimes, these priorities conflict—like this summer, when he contracted a mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever in Haiti and suffered severe headaches, chills, vomiting and muscle cramps. Erlich stayed home in Oakland, Calif. for the first two weeks of school. “It’s not treatable, so you just kind of have to grin and bear it,” he says. “It’s such...
...several personal interest stories. Lisa Guttentag ’03-’04 spoke about the path from lying in a deep coma, after a car accident almost ended her life in the summer of 2000, to returning to dance at Harvard. Justin Erlich talked about contracting dengue fever in the Caribbean. “They say the way to avoid dengue fever is to avoid mosquitoes,” he said. “That’s tough in Haiti.” Matt Espy gave a harrowing account of his life as a blue jean-hating...
...most visible symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are swollen joints and crippling stiffness, particularly of the hands and feet. But it can also cause fatigue, fever and loss of appetite, and in some cases it can affect the heart, lungs and membranes that surround these organs. The disease, which afflicts 2.5 million in the U.S., usually hits people between ages 30 and 50, but it can strike at any age, including childhood. It is three times as common in women as in men and can shorten life by a decade...
Like a sleepy Balrog in the depths of Moria, fantasy fever is stirring again. In 1997, voters in a bbc poll named The Lord of the Rings the greatest book of the 20th century. In 1999, Amazon.com customers chose it as the greatest book of the millennium. The Tolkien revival began when the Internet bubble was bursting, the market for consumer electronics was nosediving like Harry Potter chasing the Golden Snitch, and America's long summer romance with technology was fizzling. "Change and technology are so pervasive a part of daily life that for the most part there...