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Moreover, rheumatic fever now often strikes without warning. In the past the disease followed within weeks of painful streptococcal throat infections. But the majority of recent victims have experienced only mild symptoms of strep throat, if any. Thus parents have not become alarmed until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller...
Searching for an answer, researchers have focused on the bacterial strains that cause strep throat. They isolated bacteria whose presence coincided with the renewed outbreaks of rheumatic fever. The microbes proved to be mucoid strep, a form that was prevalent more than 20 years ago. "It seemed that this may be an important clue," says Edward Kaplan, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "We hadn't had much rheumatic fever, then we get these mucoid strains. Maybe they were responsible." There was a problem, however: the mucoid strains also showed up where there was no rheumatic...
Harvard's tenuous 1-0 lead crumbled, though, when UConn forward Steve Rammel's shot eluded Crimson netminder Chad Reilly at 43:53. Reilly, usually the booters' backup goalie, was filling in for first-stringer Stephen Hall, who was out with a strep throat...
What happens, on the other hand, when a baby shows up neither glowing nor cooing, but, like Baby Doe, with a strep infection and too small a head, a sign of probable mental retardation? What happens when one is reminded of the numerical odds in such things, when normal reality intrudes on the man-made miracle? It was easy to condemn Stiver for feeling no motherly connection to the child, yet surrogate motherhood necessarily precluded those feelings, indeed made reasonable her self-imposed detachment. It was easy, too, to be appalled by Malahoff's rejection, but the baby...
...have no excuse." Yale Coach Frank Keefe said afterwards, refusing to lament the absence of top sprinter Sharon Veitz and top distance swimmer Courtney Ellis. "We weren't missing anyone who isn't on the team." he added. President Bok's daughter Victoria also missed the meet because of strep throat...