Word: nile
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) dispatched an officer to investigate a suspicious individual at the Graduate School of Education’s Gutman Library. The officer arrested Junior Nile, 42, of Boston, for trespassing...
...disease outbreaks, diagnose them properly and get word out on the medical wires is central to managing crises like anthrax as well as more routine problems like Lyme disease, tuberculosis and the flu. Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City was first detected by a hospital physician who was suspicious of two cases of encephalitis among her patients and prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies on a national network of sentinel doctors to do this kind of monitoring during...
...tobacco settlement to establish five new health departments that cover 19 of the state's 93 counties. Texas is relying on revenue from the state's telecommunications fund to wire itself for the Health Alert Network. Georgia, which had been given CDC grants to fight such problems as West Nile virus and emerging infections, decided that the best way to do that was to hire a new team of epidemiologists to keep an eye out for all these ills. Such self-sufficiency at the state level will not only make grass-roots disease tracking more efficient but also make local...
...British adventurer who has traveled the Amazon and the Blue Nile told the Daily Telegraph last Thursday that the worst trip he’s ever taken was a train ride to Liverpool. The trek took...
...Number of West Nile virus-related deaths...