Word: strains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza A, one of two broad classes of flu virus that commonly affect humans. To identify the specific strain or subtype, the lab tested the sample, using reagents distributed by the World Health Organization. The test kits triggered no response...
...regular flu season, reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. But the flu season is coming. It will peak in late February and early March, with a second peak this summer. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...
...goal of including more people is right, but the President's plan makes no sense given the added costs and strain on the program," Burke says...
...people abridged the disease's funny Latinate name to make it "the flu." The middle ages renamed the bubonic plague symptoms "posy," and our era has made us all familiar with the rather scientific acronym "AIDS." At Harvard today, a similar name adjustment has occurred. Suddenly, instead of "repetitive strain injury" or "repetitive stress injury" or "tendonitis" or any other variations on the theme, even unafflicted Harvard students have started to call our increasingly common problem by the abbreviation "RSI." RSI has moved from the realm of the scientific to the realm of casual lunch conversations. Everyone has heard...
...such earthbound perseverance has emerged an amazing grace, with no trace of strain, as Kwan last month won the U.S. national title and the honor of leading America's women figure skaters to the Olympics next week. It was a victory that gave no evidence of the pain that shoots through her left foot when she lands one of those seemingly effortless triple jumps. The only expression on her face was that beatific smile, won by defiance of every sort of gravity, not just the earth's but the body's and the mind's as well, dangerous forces that...