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...into a paranoid frenzy. Border inspectors examined everything from car tires to ham sandwiches for traces of foot-and-mouth. Tourists from the U.K. were ordered to disinfect their feet upon arrival in Portugal. Possible symptoms of the disease were reported in Belgium. Although initial tests for the virus on a pig farm near the town of Diksmuide were negative, all 323 pigs-75 of them British imports-were destroyed and transportation of live farm animals was banned. Germany ordered the slaughter of all sheep, goats and deer imported from the U.K. since Feb. 1. France decreed that...
...into this fix? British veterinary investigators last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm ended...
...deadly disease of AIDS as it takes its toll all over the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The saying "It takes a village to raise a child" also applies in this case; it takes the global village to combat the devastating and destructive strength of the AIDS virus. As long as developed countries don't take measures to help the underdeveloped nations of the Third World, no one is truly safe. JOHN SEGUN ODEYEMI Suffern...
...soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home page of Turkish journalist Mahir, All Your Base spread from office to office via e-mail like a benign virus. As a slide show rather than bandwidth-hogging video, it takes seconds to load (on such websites as thefever.com/AYB2.swf) Much of the spreading was being done last week by dotcom workers in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, where good laughs are in short supply these days...
...things: get a follow-up Pap in six months or undergo an expensive procedure called a colposcopy, in which the cervix is closely examined and usually biopsied. Now researchers report on a third alternative. In a major study, they found that testing for the human papilloma virus in women with equivocal Paps quickly and accurately identifies which women are most likely to have precancerous or cancerous lesions upon biopsy, sparing half of them the need to undergo...