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...words, "an American writer born in Russia and educated in England, where I studied French literature before spending 15 years in Germany." His life was, in fact, a spiral of migrations, and his passport was his art. When he died last week at 78, of a viral infection, at a hospital near his home in Montreux, Switzerland, that art was widely considered to include some of the best novels of the 20th century. There are three masterpieces: The Gift, written in Russian and first published in 1936, Lolita (1955), and Pale Fire (1962). In addition to 14 other novels, hundreds...
...cases usually cropped up at the height of the insect season, the Yale doctors had good reason to suspect that the carrier was a bug. Indeed, some of the victims remembered being bitten by a tick, although their blood has shown no specific signs of a bacterial or viral invasion. Yet recently the Yale doctors found an important clue: sampled early in the course of the disease, the blood of some victims revealed telltale proteins called cryoglobulins,* which may be linked to an immune reaction, and have also been found in such known viral infections as hepatitis B and infectious...
Postel said the search was concentrating on two possibilities: a viral or bacterial flu unrelated to food and a bacterial or toxic food poisoning...
There was [and remains] a substantial chance that the vaccine would not work. The flu vaccine is one of the least successful viral vaccines; even its champions usually estimate no more than 70 per cent effectiveness rate, and that figure is based largely on tests in the Army, where subjects may not be certified ill until they collapse on the parade ground. In general, the level of vaccine knowledge is low; when one vaccine works better than another, no one is quite sure why. This ignorance was exacerbated in last summer's rush program since researchers could not be sure...
...ailing Kirkland House residents agreed with Wacker's conclusion. "I'm pretty prone to viral sicknesses to begin with and then after people consistently started dropping day after day I figured it couldn't have been just that swiss steak...