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...That's a worrying threshold to cross, but the good news is that the virus doesn't seem to have spread outside the family. The 32-year-old man ran away from doctors after falling ill, and passed though four neighboring villages before he was apprehended, coming into contact with 33 people. All of them are currently under observation and being given the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic, but none have shown signs of infection. Scientists have genetically sequenced two viruses isolated from the cluster and found no evidence of the kinds of significant mutations that would likely...
...seem to have abated in recent weeks, but scientists know the world is always one viral mutation away from a deadly pandemic. That fact has been driven home again by a worrying cluster of human bird flu cases in rural Indonesia that could represent the first time the H5N1 virus has managed to pass from human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April...
...family is believed to have occurred at least twice before, in Thailand and Vietnam, although never involving this many people. But if the 10-year-old boy was infected by a family member, and then went on to infect his father, it would represent the first known time the virus had passed from human to human to human. "It's certainly possible," says Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesperson in Geneva...
...checked and your larynx ogled. But you will also have your blood drawn for HIV/AIDS testing—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On May 9, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended non-binding guidelines stating that testing for the HIV virus be included among the standard battery of tests for Americans, age 13 to 64. The CDC claimed that 250,000 Americans afflicted with HIV are unaware that they are hosts to the virus and that these people are most responsible for its proliferation. Previously, the CDC only recommended such testing...
...possible so we’re able to play the best lacrosse.”Health has particularly been an issue in goal, where freshman Joe Pike was forced to play the entire game—almost 69 minutes—against the Big Green thanks to a virus that sidelined sophomore Evan O’Donnell. O’Donnell’s status for Sunday’s game is still in question.“He’s back practicing, but he hasn’t been able to compete for over a week...