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...ARIANNA MARKEL...
...Death, [the authors] assert, was not attributable to foul play; rather a sudden fracture of the leg (perhaps resulting from a fall) progressed to a life-threatening condition because of his malarial infection," wrote Howard Markel of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, in an editorial accompanying the study...
...Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...main cause of death among influenza patients. There is also evidence to suggest that they can be used prophylactically - to prevent rather than treat the disease. "We don't have many tools in our medicine cabinet to fight this disease, but this is one of them," says Howard Markel, a physician and director of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...Markel says the political climate in the U.S. is much less combustible today than in the post-Watergate era, when Ford faced a skeptical public. Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good. He says, "The good news is that our surveillance, methodology and public health professionals have never been better. But we are human and mistakes may be made - as happened with the 1976 swine flu affair - and we may jump the gun in the hope of preserving life. The current outbreak is a situation in flux. The American...