Word: virality
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Although the symptoms of the illness correlate more closely with staphylococcal food poisoning than viral gastroenteritis, the disease that the engineer decided upon even if it was a virus, it still could have been transmitted through the central kitchen...
Haig knew that Watergate was taking a terrible physical toll of Nixon. The viral pneumonia was the first signal. Yet Nixon could come back to his peak. Said Haig: "The President performed brilliantly in the Middle East and Russia...
Most people associate viral hepatitis, a debilitating and potentially fatal liver disease, with polluted water, contaminated shellfish or unsterilized hypodermic needles. But there is another way that the water-borne hepatitis viruses can find their way into humans: by mosquito. Researchers from the New Jersey Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, N.J., report in the A.M.A. Journal that they became suspicious after studying an epidemic of hepatitis that hit New Jersey in 1955. None of the victims was a drug addict, and none had eaten shellfish or come into contact with known hepatitis carriers...
...fearing that ear piercing - like tattooing and mainlining heroin - might spread hepatitis. The jeweler said that he soaked his needles in 70% alcohol, but Johnson pointed out that this treatment does not kill the stubborn hepatitis virus. The team tracked down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers but physicians who use only alcohol or benzal-konium solution for "cold sterilization" may be guilty of spreading the disease. Johnson insists that ear-piercing equip ment must be boiled for 20 minutes or thoroughly autoclaved...
...some Middle East observers, Bourguiba's indecisiveness indicates that the aging leader may be losing his grip. In recent years, he has suffered at least one heart attack, arteriosclerosis, viral hepatitis and nervous collapse-requiring prolonged hospitalization in Switzerland and the U.S. His failing health has probably made him more susceptible to the scheming of his aides...