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Infectious diseases routinely leap from animals to humans, often with devastating effects. AIDS and Ebola originated in apes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob in cattle, West Nile in birds and SARS in a little-known animal called the palm civet. Last year the exotic-pet trade took a 3-lb. Gambian rat from Africa to Wisconsin, where it infected a prairie dog with monkeypox--the first occurrence in North America. From the prairie dog, it jumped to a human and ultimately to 87 people in six Midwestern states. Increased globalization means these alien diseases are borne around the world with appalling speed. Makes...
...include edible parts of the feet, tongue and heart”) introduces a profound dilemma. If you’re anything like me, you will be torn between conflicting emotions—scorn of anything flavored with teriyaki and fear of permanent incapacitation by listeria, salmonella or Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease...
...accounts, the feasts that Wayne Waterhouse threw at his cabin overlooking Wisconsin's Brule River were fabulous. Every fall, Waterhouse would serve the bounty of his most recent hunting trips--heaping dishes of moose, elk and deer. But in 1993 Waterhouse died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a brain disorder that can be triggered by mad-cow disease, and within six years, two of his fellow feastgoers had also died of rare brain disorders. Was the game they ate to blame? That's what Wisconsin health authorities--and now the Centers for Disease Control--want to know...
...lyrics and in the media. "There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring," he sings on Sugar Baby, the last track on Love and Theft. In 1977 he went through a messy divorce from his first wife, Sara Lowndes. (One of their five children, Jakob, has gone on to become a rock star with his band the Wallflowers.) A book that came out this year, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes, revealed that in 1986, Dylan had a child with one of his backup singers, Carolyn Dennis, and later married...
...samba vocalist. Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Joao) and Moreno Veloso (son of Caetano) have released widely acclaimed CDs on other labels. Daniel Jobim, grandson of Tom, appeared on Moreno's CD. While pop-music progeny sometimes face ridicule and suspicion in the U.S., they are often embraced in Brazil. Jakob Dylan would do well to brush up on his Portuguese...