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As the Gonzaga University community finds itself in the grips of a nasty sick season, taking care of yourself and others is ...

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I got a call from Craig Harger and Charlie Buffum of Conneticut. They had just visited me at Naval War College (NWC) to ...

Often, people will have no symptoms of an intestinal worm infection. Several types of intestinal worms can infect humans. The general term for these animals is helminths. Several helminths, such as ...

fever, arthritis, etc.—are nonspecific and could potentially signal countless other medical and surgical conditions, patients with FMF are usually initially encountered by general pediatricians ...

In fact, experts sometimes use the term "flu-like illness" to refer to other diseases because "influenza is sort of the ...

But, in general ... is sort of the prototype" of a fever-causing respiratory illness, Ray explains. The flu can also cause a general feeling of fatigue or malaise, Ray says, as well as ...