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...move. Although he would not realize it for about a week, the scientist -- his name has not been officially released -- had been infected with the mysterious Brazilian Sabia virus. Soon after he got back to Yale, he was running a fever that reached 103F. An experimental antiviral drug eventually stopped the illness, but the man had exposed five people, including two children, before being confined to a hospital isolation ward, and another 75 or so health-care workers after that. All of them are under observation. While the patient slowly recovered last week, Yale officials had to decide whether...
...about whether such dangerous disease agents are being handled carefully enough. Sabia and several related viruses -- Junin, Machupo and Guanarito in South America and Lassa in Africa, all members of the arenavirus family -- are particularly frightening because they can kill in such a grisly way. Characteristic symptoms are high fever, uncontrolled bleeding in virtually every organ and finally shock. The liver turns yellow and decomposes. Blood can leak from literally every bodily orifice, including the eyes and the pores of the skin...
...timing, though a lightweight in the plot arena. It challenges the actors to pull their audience into the woes of a small-time theater troupe hauling a British sex comedy through the little theaters of America. As the tour wears on and their idiosyncrasies explode, the show reaches a fever of chaos which is only just broken by the close of the final curtain...
...Barrel Fever is as chock full of art and wisdom as I'd hoped. It's also proof that Sedaris can get as smelly as the best of them; several of the stories include grim details of home amputations, athletic phone sex and baby murder...
...Goma, Zaire refugee camps, French doctors said a deadly fever thought to be typhus has killed 19 refugees and may be spreading. Unsanitary conditions in the camps may be the problem, since the high-fever disease is often spread by lice...