Word: sickingly
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...knew that she had another specimen in her lab, taken from a 13-year-old girl admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital so sick that she had been placed on a respirator. The hospital had identified the underlying virus as Influenza A but wanted Lim to determine the subtype. Lim asked her lab technicians to come in early the next morning, Saturday, Dec. 6, to test specimens from the two patients. Both again reacted to the H5 reagents...
...animals, even moose, according to the pandemic's chronicler, Alfred W. Crosby Jr. One rumor turned out to be true--disturbingly so for anyone familiar with the subsequent history of influenza research and the recent Hong Kong outbreak. Farmers in 1918 discovered that something was making their pigs very sick, with high fevers and bad coughs. No such pig flu had ever been noticed before 1918, but every fall thereafter an influenza-like illness attacked the nation's hog population. In 1928 a researcher from the Rockefeller Institute, Richard E. Shope, went to Iowa to investigate the phenomenon...
Shortridge and Webster immediately recognized the gravity of the chicken-flu outbreak in Hong Kong, at least for the region's chicken industry. They knew that while avian influenza did not ordinarily make its host sick, a benign virus could reassort to produce a pathogen of almost inconceivable lethality. Webster's Memphis lab had observed such a transformation in the wild on two occasions, the first in April 1983, when a relatively mild influenza struck chickens on the vast chicken farms of Pennsylvania. The birds got visibly sick, some died and egg production fell, but overall the outbreak remained only...
Vaughn was a 21-year-old soldier at Camp Jackson, S.C., who reported for sick call on Sept. 19, 1918, at the peak of the pandemic. He complained of chills, fever, headache and a bad cough. He had trouble breathing. A week later, at 6:30 a.m., he died. At 2 p.m., his body was autopsied, and specimens were extracted, preserved and sent to Washington...
...course, most true love occurs well outside of the nation's capital. So, CP's valentine to you, dear reader is this spud's intimate compilation of love tales -- sweet and violent, sick and saccharine, doomed and otherwise...