Word: fevered
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...Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) rushed in loads of gloves, gowns, masks and other essential equipment to restore hygiene to filthy clinics. But when the strike forces, aided by local medical students, fanned out through the countryside around Kikwit, trying to follow the path of the fever, it became clear that the danger was far from past...
...could do nothing for him; his internal organs were hemorrhaging so badly that life was quickly draining from his body. Soon after Kimfumu died, the five medical workers who treated him, including an Italian nun who assisted in the operations, began coming down with their own symptoms: headache and fever, diarrhea, massive bleeding from every body orifice and, within a few days, death...
Horrific tropical fevers are an unfortunate fact of life in Central Africa, but this was no ordinary fever. It was the fourth outbreak ever recorded of the dreaded Ebola virus, which resists all medicines and kills up to 90% of its victims. As the full measure of the danger dawned on them, alarmed government officials called for help from international public-health experts in the U.S. and Europe. They closed schools and health clinics in Kikwit, ordered people to stay off the streets, and imposed a quarantine on the city in a desperate attempt to keep the virus from spreading...
...SPRING. The birds are chirping, the buds are bursting, a young man's fancy turns to mush. Harvard's yearly bout of spring fever is about to begin, as section attendance drops and House courtyards become littered with prematurely scantily clad bodies. Beware. The sap is rising...
...tell you how many people have asked me if 'Yellow Fever' is about 'jungle fever' or malaria," Tye chuckles...