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Then-UHS Assistant Director Dr. Sholem Postel said at the time that Salmonella infects mainly dairy products, especially food made with eggs. Diarrhea is the main symptom of such poisoning—in fall 1978, students would nickname the Salmonella outbreak the “Harvard trots...
Because football players and first-years made up the majority of the reported cases during the first outbreak, investigators pinpointed the Freshman Union and the Varsity Club as the most likely dining areas where students could have contracted the infection, according to then-UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker...
While investigators labored to find Salmonella carriers, on Oct. 28, a week and a half after the first outbreak, eight more students—this time in Winthrop House—were infected...
...third and final outbreak occurred in Kirkland House in early November. In an attempt to isolate the spread of the infection, the College University officials decided to ban all interhouse dining, remove possible carrier foods from salad bars, provide only plastic utensils in certain Houses and suspend the hiring of all temporary employees in the dining halls...
...among the usual suspects rounded up by Beijing authorities was Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon who blew the whistle on the government's cover-up of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Earlier this spring, Jiang penned a letter to China's leaders, urging them to reconsider their unrepentant stance on the massacre and describing his own haunting memories of the mangled bodies brought to his hospital that night. The disappearance last Wednesday of Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, appears to be the strongest reaction yet to his criticisms of the government, and underscores Beijing's continued determination to discourage...