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Iona M. Quillen
janeth@herald-mail.comIona Quillen was proud of her roots. She spent a lot of time researching and could trace the family tree beyond her growing-up years in West Virginia, back to the McDonalds in Ireland. She was an only child, but her parents adopted a male cousin after...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Chemotherapy, Korean War (1950-1953), Washington, DC, Lung Cancer
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Lake Forest High School adds 3 graduates to wall of fame
Three new faces will join the Alumni Wall of Fame at Lake Forest High School, which contains photographs and plaques celebrating the accomplishments of former students and inspiring current ones. The three unveiled Wednesday were David Crane, Thomas...
Tags: Education, High Schools, Graduation, Colleges and Universities, College Sports
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Nelson Mandela's health improving, South African officials say
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The health of former South African President Nelson Mandela has improved, according to South African officials who said he is in much better shape than he was a week ago when he was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia....
Tags: Pneumonia, Government, Gallbladder Disease, Nelson Mandela, National Government
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Nelson Mandela 'in good spirits' after second night in hospital
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is showing signs of recovery after his second night in a hospital for treatment of a recurring lung infection, President Jacob Zuma said Friday. Mandela was admitted to the hospital in...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma, South Africa
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Controlling tuberculosis in the jet age
As op-ed commentator Richard E. Chaisson wrote recently, "despite the devastation that TB wreaks, it still is not a global health priority" ("Tuberculosis, the forgotten killer," March 24). Just as it was necessary to eradicate smallpox and combat polio...Tags: AIDS, Malaria, Smallpox , Polio
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Abandoned Henryton hospital slated for demolition
Perched on a wooded bluff in rural southeastern Carroll County, the old Henryton State Hospital bears silent witness to the ravages of decades of neglect and vandalism. First opened in 1923, the 18-building complex that once housed the sick and...
Tags: Patapsco, Painting, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Maryland Historical Trust, Sykesville
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TB, the quiet killer
This is World Tuberculosis Day, the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the cause of tuberculosis (TB), an airborne infectious disease that continues to rage around the world, killing 1.4 million people each year. The disease remains a leading...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Epidemics and Plagues, Johns Hopkins University, Diseases and Illnesses, Malaria
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Nelson Mandela is hospitalized again for lung infection
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Nelson Mandela was readmitted to a hospital after a worrying recurrence of the lung infection he suffered in December, the South African presidency announced Thursday. It was the third time Mandela, known affectionately...Tags: Johannesburg (South Africa), Nelson Mandela, Diseases and Illnesses, FIFA World Cup, Jacob Zuma
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Hometown Secrets: Man buried sitting up in his grave in Mishawaka
Our area is home to a lot of interesting history, but perhaps one of the most unusual stories is buried in the historical Mishawaka City Cemetary. There is a man there, buried in 1882, sitting up in his grave. Not only that, but some believe he is...
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SD legislators want solution for old barn at Custer
Legislators seem willing to let the state’s juvenile corrections division proceed with constructing a new maintenance building at the STAR campus on the grounds of the old Custer state hospital. But they don’t want the barn that would be...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
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Which is worse, isolation or loneliness?
Los Angeles TimesHenry David Thoreau relished isolation but didn't feel lonely. Marilyn Monroe was a social butterfly but died lonely. Their separate fates — Thoreau dead of tuberculosis at 44, Monroe of suicide at 36 — can't tell us much scientifically, but...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, National Institutes of Health
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Washington cows positive for bovine TB
MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) - Eleven more cows at a Moses Lake, Wash., dairy have tested positive for bovine tuberculosis. State Agriculture Department spokesman Hector Castro told KING the cows have been removed from the herd for more testing. None of 1,...
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