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...first doctor to see little Fredy Garcia was the family pediatrician in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon. Fredy was suffering from a low-grade fever that occasionally returned to normal; the doctor diagnosed simple laryngitis and sent the six-year-old home to take antibiotics...
Three days later, Fredy's mother Antonia was running a slight fever too. She took her son to the Hospital Clinico in Madrid's University City, and physicians there promptly admitted both mother and child. Nearly two weeks later, Fredy's mother left the hospital completely cured, but the boy was in intensive care with acute respiratory problems. In a desperate attempt to reverse the strange malady that had struck him, doctors changed his entire blood supply. On June 15, Fredy died. He was the 40th victim of a mysterious disease apparently transmitted by contaminated cooking...
...first death occurred on May 1, when Jaime Vaquero Garcia, 8, died in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid. His five brothers and sisters also suffered from signs and symptoms that were soon to become all too familiar-severe muscular pain, fever, skin rashes and impaired nerve function-but all of them survived...
...city's population. Two-thirds fled the city, carrying the disease with them. Tiny and remote, Eyam seemed safe. But that September a village tailor received an infested bolt of cloth from London. Within a few days the tailor died. Soon dozens of others were seized by raging fever, vomiting, giddiness and excruciating buboes (swollen glands). But by the end of May the pestilence seemed to have run its course, with only 77 dead...
...days since his fever subsided, the Pope's condition has noticeably improved. He gained back seven of the 20 lbs. he lost, and has been meeting daily with various Cardinals. Despite the good prognosis for full recovery that followed last week's operation, nagging doubts remained about the future of John Paul's papacy. He has made no secret of the fact that he would rather serve as pastor to a far-flung flock than face the daily grind of church business. Vatican officials wonder what he will do if he is no longer able to carry...