Word: fevered
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...officials seal off part of their northern frontier. At airports in Africa and Europe, passengers suddenly find themselves subjected to unusual scrutiny and occasional detention. These grim security measures are aimed not at halting some new eruption of guerrilla terror but at containing a possibly greater menace: a killer fever that has been spreading ominously in equatorial Africa, causing as many as 300 fatalities, including the deaths of four Belgian medical missionaries...
Initially, some doctors thought the ailment was a form of Lassa fever, a highly lethal and still untreatable viral disease, usually transmitted by rodents, which was first discovered in a Nigerian town in 1969. Now the mystery has been solved. In Geneva last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that scientists at Atlanta's CDC, Antwerp's Institute for Tropical Medicine and Britain's Microbiological Research Establishment had all identified the killer as a form of Marburg virus disease, an extremely rare ailment first spotted in 1967 among lab workers in Marburg, West Germany, handling organs...
...already taken back some of the promises made in his acceptance speech, still clarifying his ideas about taxes. It turns out from the evidence being mined by pollsters and politicians that a lot of Americans are rich or so close it hurts and a lot more have got the fever from them...
...sound reasons exist for undergraduates to examine the evidence before rolling up their sleeves. the vaccine offers young adults about a 50 per cent chance of protection in return for a 2 per cent chance of incurring a low-grade fever, a greater risk of tenderness at the site of the shot, and the very remote possibility of more serious harm...
...vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna and the Hudson rivers, which he fought to defend against pollution...