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...That's a worrying threshold to cross, but the good news is that the virus doesn't seem to have spread outside the family. The 32-year-old man ran away from doctors after falling ill, and passed though four neighboring villages before he was apprehended, coming into contact with 33 people. All of them are currently under observation and being given the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic, but none have shown signs of infection. Scientists have genetically sequenced two viruses isolated from the cluster and found no evidence of the kinds of significant mutations that would likely...
...Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April 27, and as she worsened, several family members slept in the same small room as she did. By the first week of May six more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died on May 4 and was buried before any tissue samples could be taken, but doctors were able to confirm H5N1 in the remaining family members, all but one of whom have died. An eighth family member, a 32-year-old man, became sick...
...Nitric oxide as a treatment for critically ill preterm newborns with dangerously high blood pressure in their lungs...
...York University, unsure of his career plans and originally interested in math or science. He spent five years as an actuarial trainee and worked as a guitar instructor before his “kudalini experience,” or life-changing experience, at age 26.He became inexplicably ill, losing 65 pounds and experienced constant diarrhea over the course of a year and a half. Doctors were unable to explain what was going on, and Pacelli was unsure what to do.“I didn’t know what the heck was going on,” Pacelli says...
...first short-story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, religious themes are everywhere in The Royal Ghosts. Through them Upadhyay reveals the universal in the apparently exotic. In The Weight of a Gun, a mother of a mentally ill son consults a clairvoyant believed to be possessed by a goddess. But in Upadhyay's telling, this hardly seems odd. He pares down the extraneous bits to reveal the characters' underlying humanity, rendering clear the woman's reasoning?she is simply trying everything she can to save...