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...highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian flu, which reached France last month...
...harmful side effects. The study, conducted by HMS researchers Stephen De Wall and Brian DeDecker and published in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal Nature Chemical Biology, reported that “special forms of gold, platinum, and other classes of medicinal metals work by stripping bacteria and virus particles from the grasp of a key immune system protein,” according to a press release. Gold-based drugs have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. De Wall and DeDecker’s research began in 2001, with the goal of finding new drugs...
...Health professionals said they could not explain why this winter has seen a large incidence of flu or flu-like diseases. The College had experienced another bout of stomach infection—gastroenteritis—earlier this year, when around 15 students in Cabot House contracted a 24-hour virus. This time, Rosenthal wrote, the infection is again “probably viral” but the students admitted to UHS have been “from all over campus.” Morgan L. Haven-Tietze ’08, a Pforzheimer resident, said she has been suffering from...
...Tigers. “I was a little worried after all the hype [Saturday],” Fast said, “about getting up the momentum...but everyone pulled themselves together and played outstanding.”With Princeton’s No. 1 out with a stomach virus, all the Tigers had to play up a spot on the ladder. Against regular No. 2 Casey Riley, freshman No. 1 Lily Lorentzen had a quick 9-2, 9-5, 9-2 victory. Sophomore No. 3 Jen Blumberg had the toughest win for the Crimson, coming back from...
Currently, though no human cases have been found in Europe or the United States, the World Health Organization reported at least 92 confirmed human fatalities from the H5N1 flu virus—mostly in southeast Asia and China as well as Iraq and Turkey. The virus has already been found in commercial poultry in Asia, and, as of last Thursday, for the first time in Europe on a French turkey farm...