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...beginning of this month, O’Brien said she had turned to “good old-fashioned viral marketing” to disseminate the Just Democracy idea to other schools via e-mail...
...dining-halls can be fraught with disaster. To be on the safe-side, don’t eat off of the plate of anyone whom you’ve just met, or who is your friend’s significant other, or who looks to have some sort of viral infection. In all other cases, judge by what you’re stealing—while you should be okay picking vegetables and other healthy things off your roommate’s tray, stay the hell away from the popcorn chicken...
...April at age 72, the low-fat fanatics have been trying to prove the low-carb guru had been on a diet to disaster. Atkins did have heart disease, and suffered a cardiac arrest in 2002, but his family and staff maintain his heart problems were due to a viral infection that disrupted his heart's rhythm and not the steaks and cheese cubes he ingested and promoted. It was the calorie-free ice, the Atkins industry insisted, that did him in. But his family declined to have an autopsy done, and suspicion grew among rival diet groups, especially because...
...rich Atkins diet may help shed pounds but could raise cholesterol to dangerous levels--the medical report noted that Atkins had a history of myocardial infarction (translation: heart attack), congestive heart failure and high blood pressure. The Atkins people insist his coronary arteries were fine until he got a viral infection three years ago that reduced his heart's pumping capacity to 15% to 20% of normal, just shy of making him a candidate for a transplant. But conspiracy theorists wanted to attribute Atkins' condition to his fat-skewed diet and speculated that his heart, not his feet, caused...
...Southern China has long been recognized as the incubator of flu viruses. Traditional Chinese farming practices?especially the close proximity of birds, pigs and humans?promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. 'The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail,' says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since 1975 ... The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together...