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TICK TROUBLE Lyme disease and HGE, another tick-borne illness, can infect a person simultaneously. If Lyme is found, doctors may want to use a drug that also treats HGE, which can be fatal...
...White House himself, is discouraged but not defeated. "We've been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...tested positive in 1992 and was told the result. "He didn't care about spreading the virus," says Beth Meyerson of the Missouri Department of Health. "It was a clear case of power." Meyerson says that in Missouri, which closely tracks people with HIV, fewer than 1% knowingly infect others. But one heartless player can mean a public health disaster...
...snowmobilers. In a desperate search for food beneath 4-ft.-deep snow, the animals are using routes that are maintained for the snowmobilers to make their way to forage areas at the park's perimeter and on into Montana. That state's livestock agents, fearful that the animals will infect beef cattle with a disease called brucellosis, are shipping the animals to slaughterhouses as soon as they cross the border. Or sometimes, with the help of park employees, shooting them on the spot...
Blame ourselves for falling in love with the culture of the celebrity. Blame ourselves for allowing the culture of celebrity to infect and corrode our politics...