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...found when authorities started to trace people who may have been exposed to Tse. By that time he was already on his way back to Scarborough Grace with a burning fever. Pollack was isolated, but the E.R. staff apparently didn't check his wife Rose, 73. She was getting sick too. (Both would soon die from SARS.) When she took her husband into the E.R.'s waiting room, she sat near a man who was accompanied by two sons; all three were members of the 500-strong Toronto chapter of a largely Filipino Roman Catholic group, the Bukas-Loob...
...disease on with extraordinary efficiency. Part of the explanation may be in the individual's genetics. "We don't know what those genetic factors are yet," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), "but they're not necessarily related to how sick the person is." Some experts suspect that superspreaders might have a more virulent strain of coronavirus or be co-infected with other microbes. Having multiple infections may, these scientists speculate, increase one's chance of passing on the disease...
...numbers are lower than yesterday, we cling to the hope the worst is over. If there are more new cases and deaths, we shudder. But then I find out one of the newly infected is a co-worker's father or a doctor who once treated my sick daughter, and the fear and worry are reduced again to the real story behind this outbreak: one man, in an intensive-care ward, hooked up to a respirator, gasping for breath, fighting for his life. It is a horrible death to witness, one doctor told me, like watching a man drown...
...caveats and uncertainties, and it's not surprising that when women finally get to the hospital, it takes longer for doctors and nurses to diagnose their trouble correctly. Unfortunately, the delay may make female patients too sick to qualify for certain lifesaving treatments, such as clot-buster drugs that can stop a heart attack in its tracks. And because most women are older when they develop heart trouble, they are more likely to suffer from other conditions that complicate their care...
...pets get sick, as did Charlie, whether or not you have the time to deal with it. It was a respiratory infection. The treatment: two sets of seven shots. One has not experienced the true hellish potential of dormlife until one has spent the night before two final exams chasing a four-foot long ball python with a syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack...