Word: tsai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held a rollicking convention at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. In the next few days, eleven Pennsylvanians died, apparently of pneumonia; a Legion officer alerted health authorities that the victims all had attended the convention. A phone call was made to Atlanta for help. Late that night, Dr. Theodore Tsai, an EIS officer, arrived in the state health office, carrying a cooler, to collect blood samples and respiratory secretions. He was the first of 32 CDC officials who worked on the case...
With a malady of unknown cause, the first step is to decide how to define it. "We wanted the definition to be broad enough to include most cases, but not so broad that it would include everybody with a cold," Tsai recalls. Six EIS agents fanned out across the state, questioning other suspected victims. Where did they eat and drink? Were the windows open in their hotel rooms? What events did they attend? A more detailed survey went out to all 4,400 Legionnaires who had attended the convention, and 3,500 were returned within three days. Other agents followed...
...that hypothesis. Some who had merely walked past the hotel contracted the disease. Yet it was noncontagious: no one caught it from the original 182 victims, 29 of whom died. Nor were any bacteria found. "The picture slowly evolved that we didn't know what we were dealing with," Tsai remembers...
...Tsai Feng, librarian of Harvard College, describes Bond's success in bringing top collections to Harvard. "Often with donors it is his quietmanner, his deep knowledge and his caring for the books themselvesand the library in his charge "Feng adds, "It is also a gentle humor...thatis important in any career to succeed...
...contrast to the previously proposed overhaul of the whole library, Handlin and Yen-Tsai Feng, librarian of Harvard College, continue to plan but with a new way of thinking about renovations: "If money turned up, what would we do first," When an anonymous donation came through, there was no question that a new copper roof should replace the leaky, old one which threatened to damage Widener's priceless collections...