Word: tb
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Despite its romantic reputation, tuberculosis was never a disease of just retiring operatic heroines and "sensitive" poets. It was an indiscriminate killer, taking over 100,000 lives each year in the U.S. until the middle of this century, when antibiotics brought it under control. So when TB re-emerged in AIDS patients six years ago, it was greeted with alarm. Still, most doctors believed it posed little risk to the general population, since modern antibiotics could contain the infection before it flared into full-fledged disease...
That view appears to have been overly optimistic. Last week prison authorities in New York State revealed that 13 inmates and one guard have died of a form of tuberculosis that proved impervious to antibiotic therapy. It was the sixth major outbreak of so-called multidrug-resistant TB in the U.S. in the past two years. So far, these cases have been largely confined to AIDS patients and others with weakened immune systems. But experts fear that the disease, which kills about half those it afflicts, could spread to other groups. "TB has once again become a real killer," said...
Returning Players to Watch: Al Rosier (TB), Neal Martin (FB), Jay Fielder (QB), Chris Mawn...
Returning Players to Watch: Al Rosier (TB), Neal Martin (FB), Jay Fielder (QB), Chris Mawn...
Nickname: Lions Coach: Ray Tellier Season: 2nd 1989 Overall Record: 1-9-0 1989 Ivy Record: 1-6-0 (8th) 1989 vs. Harvard: Harvard, 26-10 Series vs. Harvard: Harvard, 42-7-0 Captains: Bruce Mayhew, Galen Snyder Lettermen Lost/Returning: 23/34 Players to Watch: Greg Abbruzzese (TB), Solomon Johnson (RB), Gary Comstock (WR), Bruce Mayhew (QB), Lex Matthews (DT), Quinn Cochran (OT), Javier Loya...