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When World Health Organization (WHO) parasitologist Carlo Urbani was treating the first cases of an unknown respiratory disease in the Hanoi-French Hospital in late February and March of 2003, he believed he might be facing the front end of an avian-flu epidemic. Dr. Olivier Cattin, the medical coordinator at the hospital, had alerted Urbani and told him the Chinese-American patient currently in the emergency ward suffering from high fever, severe muscular pains and labored breathing had possibly come down with the disease. Virologists in Hong Kong soon determined that the agent was a novel coronavirus...
...unknown to offer himself as a president is a quixotic adventure,” Jahncke says. “But the vice-presidential slot allows them to still vote for a major national candidate and vote...
...survivors to be evacuated to government buildings. (Arroyo, who is running for election this year, also distributed T shirts emblazoned "Gloria loves me.") Hours later, she and Manila Mayor Lito Atienza announced their intention to build a settlement for the victims. When?and if?that will happen is unknown...
...Senator George McGovern was an unknown, but campaign manager Gary Hart realized Iowa could win him notice. Ed Muskie got 35% of the vote, but McGovern won 22.6%--and a lot more coverage...
...Much of the violence that has occurred in the troubled Muslim south in the past two years has?at least officially?remained a mystery. The government has blamed unknown "bandits" or criminal gangs for the mayhem, which has included more than 50 cop killings, a spate of arson attacks on state schools, numerous bombings, and assaults on military and police posts. But no one in the government is talking about faceless crooks now. The military precision of last week's attack on the army base, which coincided with the burning of 21 schoolhouses in the district, and was followed...