Word: calling
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According to Steele's lawyer, John West, Steele got a call one day in early 1997 from Willey, who was talking with Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff. Could Isikoff come to interview her about Willey's visit to the Oval Office? Steele agreed but wondered why. While Isikoff was on his way to Steele's house, Willey called her again and told her what to say--that Willey had come to her house after returning from Washington that day, described a sexual advance by Clinton and was in great distress...
Webster was in Memphis driving home from a Saturday at work when his wife told him he had received a call from the CDC. He called back, waited, called again, and this time got the news: "The virus is moving...
Meanwhile Osterhaus had called Webster in Memphis to learn more about H5. Only then, in that phone call, did the human-flu research community at last learn of the earlier outbreak of chicken flu on the three Hong Kong farms; and only then did Webster and Shortridge learn of the first human case--even though Shortridge's laboratory and Lim's are housed in adjacent buildings...
...concedes, however, that he was startled when Osterhaus told him about the three-year-old boy who had died on May 21, the day after Lim received his specimen. Webster also wondered whether the H5 was merely a contaminant. Osterhaus assured him it was not. After the call, Webster taped a note to the wall over his desk: H5 IN A CHILD...
...world were galvanized. The CDC, alerted by Claas, quickly tested its own copy of Lim's virus and confirmed the finding. In San Francisco, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, chief epidemiologist for the CDC's influenza section, was doing a clinical rotation at Mount Zion Hospital when he received an urgent call from the agency's head of surveillance. "Whenever you get a call like that," he says, "you know it's probably not great news." Shortridge was vacationing in England when his phone went wild. "The first thing that crossed my mind was, 'Is this the start of a new pandemic...