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Outside again, a man looms out from a corner like Harry Lyme. "Hi," he says. "Hello," you mumble nervously. But what the hell, surely the good guys do something more than drink coffee, what could possibly happen on the corner outside the police station anyway, with your down jacket and notepad you look like a stake-out so he's probably scared out of his mind--but why would he be talking to you then instead of running as if all Beezlebub's minions were after...
...Harry Lyme stretched, stood up, and started walking in tight figure-eights. "You know," he said, "the hilarious part about it is that my old try some...now buy some syndrome is so true, girl. You tell yourself for ages that you'll never smoke. Then it's you'll never take pills. Then you're doing both but of course you'd never do anything with a needle, you're not crazy...and then you do...it's like every time you're making promise to yourself and with each time you break one there's that much less...
...Tremont St. it is getting colder. Harry Lyme offers you a drag. As you take one you wonder, college-kid-guilt seeping through you cold as rain, how much you can spare from your wallet. Oh God! You can't really...Coop bill, phone bill, that record you promised your roommate, boyfriend's birth-day present--oh well, you console yourself, it would only hurt his pride to be offered money...
...investigation into Lyme arthritis was led by Dr. Stephen Malawista, chief of Yale's rheumatology section, and two colleagues, Drs. Allen Steere Jr. and John Hardin. Because nearly all the victims lived in wooded areas heavily infested with insects, and because the cases usually cropped up at the height of the insect season, the Yale doctors had good reason to suspect that the carrier was a bug. Indeed, some of the victims remembered being bitten by a tick, although their blood has shown no specific signs of a bacterial or viral invasion. Yet recently the Yale doctors found...
Alerted by the Connecticut data, doctors in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York have since discovered instances of Lyme arthritis in their own areas. These cases suggest that the disease may have been misdiagnosed or overlooked in the past and may actually be widespread. In fact, in the latest issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the Yale doctors point out that European doctors have long known of a tick-borne infection called erythema chronicum migrans; it is characterized by a similar reddening, although it has so far never been associated with arthritis. Now the Yale researchers will concentrate on finding...