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...search itself may entail some risks. While examining tissue from a victim last month, Dr. Sheila Moriber Katz, a pathologist at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, became seriously ill with symptoms that looked strikingly like those of Legionnaires' Disease: muscle pain, shaking chills and high fever. Katz's illness was clinically diagnosed as viral pneumonia, and she recovered in time to attend last week's meeting. But try as they might, doctors have been unable to identify the virus that felled her-if it was indeed a virus...
...challenges-new and different ones every day-it's hard to be content. People who have left still long to come back." Buchen plans to open a law office and perhaps participate in a business venture with another former Grand Rapids citizen who has caught Potomac fever: Ford Adviser William Seidman...
...silence swells. Our silence lies between us like a heap of garbage." Within a few years, "I knew I would rather die brutally, prematurely, than lead the life my husband would have preferred for me." Eventually, in the throes of what an earlier age might have charitably called cabin fever, she runs through the forest clutching leaves, moaning with thirst, and finally plunges into a lily-filled river seeking death and freedom...
...shantytown of Maridi. Doctors at a clinic there radioed that 46 people had died, including a physician and several nurses. Since then, reports from neighboring Zaire indicate that at least 200 people have died of a similar affliction. In both regions the victims first suffered severe headaches and high fever. Within days they were coughing, vomiting and hemorrhaging, and a third to a half of all those hospitalized later died...
Like Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease is highly infectious. Though scientists still do not know the exact mechanism, the disease can be transmitted by contact with infected blood, tissue and even semen; it may also be spread by particles in the air. No cure has yet been found, although doctors are hoping a serum can be made from blood of surviving victims who have antibodies against the virus...