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...afternoon. The announcement raises the total number of possible cases in the Boston area to nine, adding to the original diagnosis of a Dental School student that was announced last week. Of those nine, two cases tested as Type A influenza accompanied by “acute febrile respiratory illness,” meeting the criteria for swine flu diagnosis published by the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Final confirmation of a swine flu diagnosis is pending additional test results from the CDC, said David S. Rosenthal ’59, director of Harvard University Health Services. Rosenthal...
...here's a prediction from her 2006 book Essential Astrology for Women: "Corporations will crumble and fall ... Anything with a big pyramid structure and massive skyscraper towers is vulnerable." Dumb luck or precognition? Let's look at her current take on politics. Joe Biden's turn as Veep is ill-starred, says Adams, whereas "Hillary Clinton is set to go up and up. Her chart on the day Obama won was more powerful than...
...death is a wake-up call to parents to speak up for their own children. Many are afraid to. Indu Bhandari, mother of a five-year-old, says her son often complains about being hit on the head with a pencil by his teacher. "If I complain, she might ill-treat my son more," Bhandari says. At my son's school, I raised the matter for discussion in the parents' forum. We decided to watch how all the children in his school are treated much more closely. For now, that...
...name was Adela Maria Gutierrez and she was 39 when she died, the first known fatality from the virus that swept through Mexico and into the rest of the world. A month before she took ill, she had just found temporary work, a government pollster job that sent her from door to door in the outskirts of Oaxaca, the city where she lived with her husband, a welder, and their three daughters, ages 21, 17 and 10. Her mother-in-law, whose house she lived in, says Adela worked very hard "from 8 in the morning until 11 at night...
Adela had already been ill for eight days, but the next five days saw a further and rapid decline in her health. On the second day of hospitalization, she began to suffer from hypoxic encephalopathy - her brain was not receiving enough oxygen - and she was put on a ventilator. The next day, X-rays showed that both sides of her lungs were damaged. She continued to go downhill until the afternoon of April 13, when she died after suffering cardiac arrest. (See pictures of Mexico in the time of swine...