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...officials estimated recently that up to 15% of households with children in the western part of Uttar Pradesh state may have been skipped in recent vaccination drives. In a state with a very high population density and poor sanitation, that figure is large enough to ensure that polio - which spreads through contaminated water and contact with excrement - has made a comeback, just when it looked like the net was closing on it in India. Although 90% of India's districts are polio-free, the disease has spread out this year from its epicenter in western Uttar Pradesh to other parts...
...This year's polio outbreak has been concentrated in India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, home to over 170 million people. It is here, say health workers, that a few ultraconservative Muslim clerics have spread a myth that the polio vaccine is part of an underhanded campaign to sterilize Muslim children and lower the Muslim birth rate. Dr Hamid Jafari, the regional advisor for the World Health Organization (WHO) on polio eradication, says that the majority of Uttar Pradesh's Muslims have got their children vaccinated, but, "in certain places, fatwas have been issued against the vaccine." In those places...
...first person got kind of like a rash,” said Austin D. McLeod ’09, a linebacker who himself contracted MRSA. “The second person got a rash and some bumps.” According to McLeod, as the bacteria spread to more players, the symptoms intensified. “The guy who had it before me got it on his calf and it sort of swelled up. I got it on my foot and it swelled up to the point where I couldn’t walk and I had to be hospitalized...
Chocolate-dipped macaroons. Fresh mozzarella. Coconut shrimp, for Christ’s sake! Yes, there was female empowerment. Yes, there was the satisfaction of finally realizing a long-awaited goal. But at the opening of the Harvard College Women’s Center last Thursday, it was the spread of gourmet eats and other plush amenities that had people really impressed. Revelers were rewarded for their trip through a sweaty hall under Canaday B with the swank center itself, all cushy couches, tasteful lighting, and, perhaps most importantly, a hell of a lot of free shit. FM collected...
...long as the first floor will be gutted, the second floor might as well be too. What better use of the space than a newer, sexier Career Services interviewing facility so that, one day we, too, can go forth and spread the gift of banking. See you in the Holyoke Center, Gnomon. Farewell, Toscanini’s. And not a moment too soon...