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CDC names meatpackers’ sickness
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Investigators say they ve ruled out toxins as a cause, and viruses or bacteria are unlikely because none of the affected workers reported infectious disease symptoms, such as fever, before the onset of their neurological symptoms. That would leave

A shot in the arm
South China Morning Post - Michael Osterholm, director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a frequent writer on such topics as avian flu and bioterrorism, said planning was poor. “People just assume business will run as

New Salk program to study microbes
San Diego Union-Tribune - Young, an infectious-disease researcher at Salk and chairman of the institute’s faculty. Young’s lab, for example, studies how human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, invades cells, but it has less expertise on how the cells that the virus invades

Landrieu, others defend earmarks
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Landrieu’s is the minority view in a city that is suddenly treating earmarks as an infectious disease. In his State of the Union address this week, President Bush lectured Congress about inserting pet projects into spending bills and ordered federal