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...sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, 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...
...concedes, however, that he was startled when Osterhaus told him about the three-year-old boy who had died on May 21, the day after Lim received his specimen. Webster also wondered whether the H5 was merely a contaminant. Osterhaus assured him it was not. After the call, Webster taped a note to the wall over his desk: H5 IN A CHILD...
...Harvard soccer captain has been drafted in each of the two years in which the three-year-old league has conducted a draft. Wil Kohler '97 was drafted by the New York/New Jersey Metrostars a year ago, and decided not to play...
...people outside the medical community paid much attention last May when a three-year-old Hong Kong boy died of a mysterious flu that usually infects only birds. Even this fall, when seven more people came down with the same viral strain--and one of them died--doctors found comfort in the fact that the virus did not seem to be spread from person to person. But then last week two young cousins of one of the victims fell ill with what appeared to be the same disease, prompting medical authorities in the U.S. and China to warn that this...
...needed to sterilize fresh or frozen meat on an assembly-line basis (and will add 3[cents] or 4[cents] to the retail price of chopped sirloin), they want to gauge consumer demand. Admits John Masefield, chief executive of the Whippany, N.J., medical sterilization company Isomedix, whose three-year-old petition prompted the FDA action: "A lot of people want to be second...