Word: pox
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...strike came in the 11th minute, when freshman midfielder Katie Westfall--playing in her first game since being diagnosed with the chicken pox early last week--unleashed a high shot from 35 yards out. Hartford goalkeeper Anne Lise Nilssen tipped the ball upwards and off the crossbar. As the ball bounced out in front of the goal, Mattison lunged forward, sacrificing her body and heading the ball into...
...same day she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, freshman midfielder Katie Westfall was unavailable against Quinnipiac because of a case of the chicken pox. Westfall, who is second on the team in scoring with 17 points, is currently under quarantine, but should be able to play on Saturday against Hartford...
...pox on all "sacred" places! A good solution would be to level Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and build low-cost housing for the poor. I am certain that God (if he exists) would approve. Harold A. Falconer Farmington, Conn...
Critics insist that these diseases were already being conquered by better nutrition and sanitation before vaccines came along, and that the epidemics would eventually have petered out on their own. Oh, really? Then why hasn't the incidence of common colds declined and the number of chicken-pox cases (for which a vaccine was licensed only five years ago) been reduced? The sharp decline in communicable diseases has coincided, in each case, with the introduction of an appropriate vaccine...
Those contradictions will never be fully resolved, but in the meantime, parents can try an ounce of prevention. The first order of business: the chicken-pox vaccine. It's not 100% effective, but at the very least it shortens the illness, which can last a week or more. And even toddlers can learn good hygiene: besides cutting down on colds, your family may also dodge the flu, which strikes roughly half the school-age population in any given year. Clean hands and plenty of tissues have worked for our friend Elizabeth, who is rarely sick--despite what the school nurse...