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Israeli researchers think that ignoring trauma may be healthier than pouring out your heart to a psychiatrist (and they have a lot of stress over there, so they should know). “The findings of this study suggest that a repressive coping style may promote adjustment to traumatic stress, both in the short and longer term,” says Tel Aviv social worker Karni Ginzburg.

Ginzburg and colleagues studied 116 patients who were hospitalized for heart attacks and suffering anxiety about their brush with death. They compared them to 72 people who had not suffered heart attacks. He chose heart attack victims because, “The damage to the heart, with its symbolic meaning as the essence of the human being, may shatter the patient’s sense of wholeness and safety,” Ginzburg says.
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A pet snake may have caused the death of a woman who died after receiving a tainted blood transfusion. Salmonella bacteria from the snake may have contaminated the blood given by the blood donor. Another woman became ill following a transfusion from the same donor, but she survived. Snakes carry salmonella bacteria (the same bacteria that infects poultry), but this is the first time a snake has been implicated in a death this way.
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Malaria-carrying mosquitoes have been found in Maryland, near the area where two teenagers became ill with the disease this past summer. “Having two cases of domestically transmitted malaria, and finding two pools of positive mosquitoes, hasn’t happened for decades in the U.S.,” says health authority David Goodfriend.
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As our military is getting ready to face an assault by chemical and biological weapons from Iraq, newly declassified Pentagon reports reveal that the United States secretly tested similar chemical and biological weapons on American soil during the 1960s. The tests included releasing deadly nerve agents in Alaska and spraying bacteria near Hawaii and San Diego. The military paid ranchers reparations after 6,400 sheep died when nerve gas drifted away from a test site in the Utah desert. The documents didn?t say whether any civilians were exposed to the poisons. We also tested nerve agents in Canada and Britain, with their cooperation. Chemical and biological agents were sprayed on ships at sea.
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