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...Meanwhile, even Schiff, who has become an important adviser to her father's campaign, seemed to have walked off the job at GoreNet, leaving her dad gallivanting through the Sunbelt, wooing retirees and trying desperately to feel their pain...
...Well, the rest of this column goes out to all the hypochondriacs out there. Quite perniciously, the first symptoms of the infection in the early stages are similar to those of the common flu. The CDC warns that most stricken with Ebola display high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue and diarrhea, and some patients also complain of sore throat, hiccups, rash and red itchy eyes within a few days post-infection. Of course, these symptoms could easily be confused with numerous every-day maladies (from the common flu to pre-midterm stresses), which is what makes Ebola...
Quickly after the onset of these initial, mostly benign symptoms, more serious symptoms such as chest pain and shock ensue, and some patients become blind or begin to bleed profusely. This bleeding is caused by the breakdown of membranous tissues that separate different parts of the body from others. As these cells become infected and release their viral loads, the patients' organs effectively liquefy. Membranes that separate the patient from the outside world also breakdown, releasing this internal viral slurry. In effect, the patient becomes a human virus bomb...
...nephew soon followed. Seven people in just over three weeks. "One died in that hut, my mother in there, one over there, the kid in there," says brother Richard, 35, making his way around the tiny village. "There is nothing left, no one to look after me. The pain is too difficult to tell...
...serious - if that is the word. The (humorless) physiologist describes laughter as spasmodic, rhythmic, vocalized, expiratory and, when due to tickling, involuntary: Those studying the neural pathways of what is called "the tickle-laughter reflex arc" postulate that tickling results from the simultaneous sensation of both touch and pain - a kind of benign assault, wherein Normality of touch (N) and a prospective Violence of pain (V) suddenly occupy the same space. N + V = H (hilarity...