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...current population, according to the National Institutes of Health. About 90 percent of those infected have latent tuberculosis, Murray said. The remaining 10 percent have active tuberculosis. Active tuberculosis has a mortality rate of about 50 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Since HIV compromises its victims?? immune systems, HIV-positive patients are more susceptible to TB. As a result, TB poses a particularly large threat in areas where a significant portion of the population has HIV. In such areas, Murray said, “Infection rates are just rocketing...
...prison and a $2,000 fine. Believing that he had a strong “social host” case against party host Nathanial Berberian, Northborough Police Chief Mark Leahy asked Worcester District Attorney John Conte to release the results of the toxicology tests conducted as part of the victims?? autopsies to his department. The toxicology reports, if they did indeed verify witness accounts that the sisters had been drinking at the party, could have provided Leahy’s investigation with serious evidence against Berberian. A clear message should have been sent that the people of this...
...face potential death-by-famine in the coming months. According to statistics from Doctors Without Borders, that $250,000 would fund nearly 3 million high-energy meals for children who would otherwise go hungry. Instead, Harvard will donate its money to organizations performing an array of services for Katrina victims??from feeding them snacks to finding them shelter beds. But in very few (if any) cases will Harvard’s Katrina donations mean the difference between life and death. Although it’s difficult to quantify the impact of a charitable gift, we can be quite...
...mental illness.” Eric Scott, a University of New Orleans student enrolled at the Harvard Extension School for this semester, said he hoped the response would involve as multifaceted an approach a possible. Overdramatized coverage of the crisis, he said, favors sensationalism over an accurate portrait of victims?? needs.“People outside of New Orleans who are not dealing with this daily, they want to see more and more ‘shocking,’” Scott said in an interview. “They want to see the high-angle...
...issue in the appeal is a March 2005 SJC ruling that allows juries to learn of victims?? violent pasts if it can help them determine who was the aggressor in a fight...