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...slow down the Crimson offense, as the visitors put up eight more runs over the next two innings. Most of the damage came from O’Hara in the cleanup spot, who belted doubles in the first and second innings and a bases-clearing triple in the third for a total...
Yale’s Gutterud pitched a complete game but allowed four of her six hits and two of her four walks in the decisive third inning...
...Bulldogs threatened in the final frame when batter Mariclaire Rebman led off with a strikeout but was able to reach first on a wild pitch by Zumbro. After a single and a flyout that put runners on second and third, another single and a groundout brought in two runs for Yale. Two more wild pitches and a throwing error brought in two more Bulldog runs, forcing Brown to come back in to end the Bulldogs’ threat and preserve the win for the Harvard...
Tuberculosis: The very name of the disease evokes images of antiquity, a footnote in dusty encyclopedias of human sickness overshadowed by the abbreviated diseases of the present—SARS, HIV/AIDS, H1N1. Few students would be able to guess that one third of the world’s population is infected with TB or that more than 12,000 cases were reported in the U.S. in 2008. Transmitted by coughing, sneezing, or spitting, TB thrives in the humid and closely-packed quarters of slums and urban outskirts...
...cascade effect, noncompliance selects for drug-resistant strains of the mutated pathogen, precipitating the rise of multi-drug resistant and extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. Treatment for drug-resistant TB with second-line drugs is astronomically more expensive, more time-intensive, and associated with more toxic side effects. Third, the rise of TB and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection means TB is leading cause of death among HIV-positive patients: In Africa, HIV is the single most important factor contributing to the increasing incidence of TB over the last 10 years...