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...OUTBREAK...
This brought the total to four. Two patients had died. One was on a respirator. Fukuda, a member of the pandemic planning committee, suddenly had a glimpse of what it might be like to confront an explosive outbreak. It is one thing to plan rationally, he says. "It's another thing all of a sudden to be struck with a sense that, my God, what will happen if there are a thousand cases like this? What will happen to all of those people? How will hospitals cope? How will any of us cope...
...with a confirmed case of H5 influenza. On Dec. 7, a five year-old girl began vomiting and developed other flu symptoms. H5 again. On Dec. 12, another child, a cousin of the five-year-old, came down with a fever and was hospitalized with H5. And a new outbreak of H5 had turned up on a fourth chicken farm in the New Territories...
...more her mad-cow disease guests talked, the more troubled Oprah Winfrey became. Food-safety activist Howard Lyman warned that America's cattle industry was inviting a mad-cow outbreak by its practice of "rendering," or grinding up, cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that...
...outbreak of violence between these two extremes of the sectarian struggle comes at an importune--and nervous--time. The Protestant unionist parties participating in the talks were already discontent with the way British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Marjorie Mowlam was handling the negotiations. Says M.P. Ken Maginnis, a senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party: "She has been giving concession after concession to Sinn Fein and the I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull...