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...Rocky Mountain spotted fever [Jan. 24]: TIME is a lifesaver. The day before we received that issue, my wife had a 102° fever, a splitting headache, muscle pains and a rash on palms of hands and soles of feet. We thought it was probably a belated case of flu. Within minutes of reading your article, I was on the phone to our physician, who promptly prescribed a tetracycline drug. Blood tests have since confirmed the diagnosis. Since this is the only known case in this area, it could have remained unidentified but for TIME. Thank...
...master. Either way, the tick's bite gets the microbe into the bloodstream, where it multiplies. It soon causes high fever, splitting headache, severe muscle aches and mental confusion. Many other diseases produce similar symptoms, but spotted fever has one distinctive feature: it causes a measles-like rash on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet...
...always be cured with antibiotics (chloramphenicol or the tetracyclines) if diagnosed early enough. The trouble, say Murray and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that most doctors in the East are not alert to the danger. Unless they happen to spot the palms-and-soles rash, they are likely to misdiagnose the disease and treat it with sulfas or penicillin-both of which seem to make it worse. Lives can be saved, they say, if doctors will look for the distinctive signs, especially in summer, when the Cape and the islands are crawling with tourists...
...Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered to notify the police of the ransom dropoff, two officers responded to the call. They spotted what appeared to be two men, one carrying a duffle bag, the other a suitcase and a carbine. At the appearance...
Clark, who retired from the Court in 1967 when his son became Attorney General, said the popular conception of the Court reaching out to correct wrongs it sees in the society is incorrect. "Often a case triggers a rash of others, making the public think the Court is obsessed with an issue," he said...