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...David finally emerged from his sterile world, crawling through an air lock into his mother's waiting arms. But that brief reunion was clouded by worry: a persistent fever, diarrhea and vomiting had made it necessary for doctors to treat him outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted...
...well for David, whose surname has been kept secret by the hospital in order to protect his privacy. Doctors have not yet determined whether the transplant was a success, and his recovery has been marred by recurrent bouts of fever, diarrhea and nausea. He was released from his bubble so that doctors could more easily treat and diagnose these symptoms...
...talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
...this response that Biographer Scott Elledge, an English professor at Cornell, tries to deflect. The life of Author E.B. White, 84, Elledge keeps insisting, has been harder than it looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went to high...
Influenza, as opposed to the more common flu is marked by chills, high fever, muscle aching, headache and a cough, Postel said, adding, "the flu is more like a cold--a sore throat and stuffy nose...