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...realized they were being lied to. The result: society began to break apart. Confidential Red Cross reports noted "panic akin to the terror of the Middle Ages of the plague" and victims starving to death "not from lack of food but because the well are afraid to help the sick." Doctors and nurses were kidnapped. One scientist concluded that if the epidemic continued to build, "civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth within a few more weeks...
Suffering from migraines and sick of suburban life, real estate agent Dawn Deel fled the outskirts of Detroit three years ago to build a new life in Golden Township, Oceana County, on Lake Michigan's eastern shore. Deel's new house, in an area known for the beauty of its sand-duned beaches and orchard-clad hills, overlooks a fallow field where cherry trees once grew. She hopes this bucolic vista will lure buyers to the adjacent plots she owns. Best of all, her migraines are gone. "Since I've been up here," she says, "my whole physiology has changed...
...think they'd be sick of each other, but they actually hang out offstage too. "We've always been friends," Broderick says. "We've had little arguments, very brief moments of temper or whatever, but so little. During this rehearsal process, when we get our little hour-and-a-half break, we go somewhere and eat. And go out after." There are joint excursions to the Hamptons. They have a whole circle of friends in common, including Parker and Lane's steady boyfriend as well as Alias actor (and Broadway veteran) Victor Garber. "Nathan is as much a part...
Virologists named the newest strain of avian flu H5N1, after two proteins (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase) that dot the surface of the virus like spikes on a mace. Since 2003, more than 100 people have become sick enough to come to the attention of health authorities, and at least 60 of them have died. So far, the vast majority have been infected through close contact with birds; human-to-human infection is still extremely rare. What gives health authorities nightmares is the possibility that the lethal H5N1 could mutate into a virus that is easily passed among humans...
Despite what the President said earlier last week, a quarantine would probably not be an effective solution for a bird flu that has become pandemic. It is hard to tell who is sick because humans are contagious before they show symptoms. And communities today are much too interdependent to shut down their borders for months on end. (Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they...