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Will Hootenanny follow in the footsteps of its parent chain, Newbury Comics, drawing in crowds even after the Halloween fever has passed? The answer will come only with time, but for now Hootenanny remains the only store to beckon those scurrying around campus with the promise of red sweatshirts adorned with devil horns and pleasure overcoats that will keep their wearers warm as they stumble home during the wee hours of the morning...
...Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, and is spread from one person to another via infected saliva droplets. A person exposed to the virus might not show any symptoms for 12 days before developing a high fever, fatigue, headache and generalized back pain. Two or three days later, a characteristic rash develops over the face, arms and legs; the rash begins as flat lesions which fill with pus, then scab over and fall off in three or four weeks. Roughly 30 percent of smallpox patients eventually...
...nation already buzzing on hyperalert, almost any outbreak of an unusual malady was sure to raise the specter of a bioterrorist attack (see story below). Last week there were two such reports: an anthrax death in Florida and a cluster of cases of a virulent hemorrhagic fever along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Easy to forget but worth remembering is the fact that bacteria and viruses, even unconventional ones, do occasionally sweep through human hosts...
Similarly, nasty viral infection raging along the Afghan-Pakistani border is neither unusual nor unexpected; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, as it is known, makes an appearance in that region each spring and summer, as ticks are its primary mode of transmission. Since March, 47 cases of the disease have been reported; at least four of those occurred in recent weeks...
...Sept. 11 bombings. Aid workers estimated that they would have to provide 55,000 tons a month to feed all 6 million people thought to be in need. Another threat to the refugees appeared in the Pakistan border town of Quetta, where 75 people have caught Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, an Ebola-like disease that causes victims to bleed to death from the body's orifices. Seemingly anxious to reduce...