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...room still contained most of Student 2's belongings," says Dr. W. K. George in College Health, "and it is probable that the bed linens had not been changed." The researchers are not convinced that Hodgkin's?a baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude???can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hodgkin's Clue? | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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