Word: parasitologist
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When World Health Organization (WHO) parasitologist Carlo Urbani was treating the first cases of an unknown respiratory disease in the Hanoi-French Hospital in late February and March of 2003, he believed he might be facing the front end of an avian-flu epidemic. Dr. Olivier Cattin, the medical coordinator at the hospital, had alerted Urbani and told him the Chinese-American patient currently in the emergency ward suffering from high fever, severe muscular pains and labored breathing had possibly come down with the disease. Virologists in Hong Kong soon determined that the agent was a novel coronavirus...
...their marriage after changing his name to Henri and taking a fancy to all things French (including the Lewis' latest student), Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading to a whole series of plot twists that give new meaning to the term symbiosis...
...Shah's doctors include such experts as Physician in Chief Hibbard Williams, Parasitologist Benjamin Kean, who visited the ailing monarch in Mexico, and Cancer Therapist Morton Coleman. They concede that if they have erred, it is on the side of conservatism. Robert Armao, an adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival...
Even before publication, this journal had assumed a near legendary character. John Janovy Jr., a University of Nebraska parasitologist, was a literary unknown. His manuscript, which deals with such unprepossessing subjects as snails and the parasites that reside in their innards, arrived at the office unsolicited. Usually, such "over-the-transom" offerings are ignored. But something persuaded an editor to take a quick look at this one "just in case." The decision was the literary equivalent of finding a diamond in a stream...
SAMUEL PESSOA (Brazil), parasitologist...