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...what is hepatitis A, and what can you do to keep from getting it? Like other forms of hepatitis, it's an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus. The symptoms, which include fever, nausea, diarrhea, jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain and loss of appetite, usually clear up within a month or two. (Hepatitis B and C, by contrast, often cause chronic, incurable infections that can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.) Up to 200,000 Americans contract hepatitis A every year, often after eating shellfish taken from contaminated waters. But with our growing reliance on fresh foods...
...Such chronic neglect has decimated villages like Xinmin. By the early 1990s, local health workers no longer had a budget to spray antisnail pesticide around Dongting Lake, where Xinmin is located. Free schistosomiasis checkups and medicine stopped as well. Now funding for local clinics once proudly designated as "antisnail-fever bureaus" has also dried up; to make ends meet, many have opened up moneymaking clinics for sexually transmitted diseases and osteopathy. Consequently, just as China was proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health...
...crusader Chairman Mao. Outside, the ground is littered with the shells of snails whose worms infect workers in warmer weather. Song's drinking and washing water, drawn from a brackish pit by his hut, also teems with Schistosoma worms in the summer. Naturally, Song has been diagnosed with snail fever. He doesn't feel the symptoms yet, but he knows they will come?as they have for nearly everyone he knows...
...Infrared Fever Screening System, inspired by the recent SARS scare, can't diagnose a medical condition. But it can reveal in a moment whether someone is running a temperature--a sign he or she could be sick and warrant a closer look. The system produces a color-coded thermograph of each passerby: red means hot, green means not. Dozens have been sold for use in airports, hospitals, hotels and other public spaces throughout Asia. INVENTORS Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency AVAILABILITY Now, about $50,000 per unit TO LEARN MORE www.ifss.com.sg...
...pointing out yet another potentially serious post-flu problem - one that's already starting to turn up on the Internet and in gossip columns, and even sneaking into some magazine articles. "I'm worried people aren't going to believe that she was really sick. She had a 104? fever. But I'm sure some in the media are going to raise questions about it and try to turn it into something else. You know how it works." I'm feeling much better," spears cheerfully announces, swatting away the hair curler dangling down her brow as a stylist...