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...learning more about inhalational anthrax as we see more cases. Using an X-ray or a CAT scan, a doctor will be able to see inflamed lymph nodes in the patient?s chest, and that?s a telltale sign of anthrax...
Vietnam creates blacker, deeper realities for the individuals. Sissy, in quite possibly the play’s most powerful moment, treats a patient to whom she had previously given a picture of herself for support. Now dying, with his arms and legs grotesquely blown off, he returns the picture to her. The intense personal connection in a situation of such horrid human destruction is something Sissy is barely able to handle. Newhall plays the scene with a near-perfect, wonderfully understated sense of unresolved guilt as she watches the soldier convulse in terrible pain...
This suggested, says Walker, that doctors must find better ways to drain lymph from around the organs, in order to relieve the pressure. And they need to develop an antitoxin, since even when antibiotics kill off the bacteria, the poison that the bug has emitted can still kill the patient. There is also an anthrax vaccine, made exclusively for the U.S. government by a private manufacturer named BioPort in Lansing, Mich. But in 1999 the FDA asked the company to stop shipment of its vaccine until BioPort instituted better quality-control measures. The company expects to begin shipping vaccines again...
...since then, hundreds of millions of people - old, young, rich and poor - have died or been blinded or disfigured by the smallpox virus. This story was supposed to have a happy ending: On May 8, 1980, nearly 200 years after Edward Jenner first inoculated a patient against smallpox, the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally announced the eradication of the disease. Sixteen years later, the World Health Assembly recommended that the last smallpox stocks (thought to be held at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow or the Russian...
...terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." To accomplish this victory, freedom-loving people throughout the world will have to be willing to sacrifice comfort, finances, superfluous liberties and perhaps even their lives. We must learn to be patient instead of arrogantly demanding, forgiving instead of litigious, and cooperative instead of contentious and divisive. It is the hour of course corrections, balance, discernment and wisdom. May we rise to the occasion with a new appreciation of what it costs to be free. TERESA NEUMANN Lebanon...