Legionnaires Disease Cause Found After Months of Tests
Researchers in Atlanta and Philadelphia identified a bacteria like organism linked to Legionnaires disease after thousands of tests and studies. The agent is not yet understood, not contagious, and likely spread via an unknown mechanism at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.
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Pennsylvania
Center For Disease Control
Bellevue-Stratford
Pennsylvania American Legion
Bellevue
Joseph McDade
National Center For Disease
McDade
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington D.C
Charles Shepard
Rickettsia
CDC
David Fraser
Breakthrough on Legionnaires disease found in Pennsylvania
Health officials isolate a bacterialike organism linked to last summer's deaths, sparking relief in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Officials caution the discovery answers little about the source or transmission, while CDC continues testing 151 patients and revisiting the Bellevue Stratford Hotel investigation.
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Shepard
David Sencer
CSC
Morton Rosen
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Philadelphia Health
Br. Lewis -Polk
Polk
Associated Press
Robert Forsythe
American Legion
Mechanicsburg
Philadelphia
Federal Center For Disease Control
Albert Gaudiosi
Frank Rizzo
City Health
Lewis Polk
Bellevue Stratford
Forsythe
Pittsburgh
CDC
Bellevue
Leonard Bachman
Cairo imposes 14 hour curfew as clashes erupt
Police clash with crowds in Cairo amid a second day of protests. A child was killed as crowds rioted causing transport stoppages and shop closures. Cairo Radio said the curfew from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. Thursday bans anyone on the streets without permission.
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Cairo Radio
Bagot
Inflation slows as 1976 price rise seen at four-year low
Washington reports that final year end inflation figures point to consumer prices rising 4.5 percent in January with December data due, suggesting overall 1976 inflation near 6 percent. The rate is about one point below Ford administration expectations and the best since wage price controls capped gains at 3.4 percent in 1972.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ford Administration
Carter’s Oldest Son Caught Smoking at Navy Training School
A Navy official said on Tuesday that the oldest son of the President-elect, Tossed out back Carter, was caught smoking and expelled from a Navy training school in 1970. He reportedly accepted a discharge one step below honorable before the incident.
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Back Carter
Navy
Carter
Benendy
Inaugural events open Washington ahead of Carter
President elect Carter arrives amid cold as inaugural hoopla begins with parties by the Inaugural Committee. Ford hosts a White House party for Betty and plans departure to California after Carter’s swearing in. Carter visits Plains depot en route to Washington and attends a Kennedy Center gala. Ford to play in Pebble Beach golf tournament then settles in Palm Springs with a large transition staff. A separate report from Philadelphia notes the murder of Barbara Hughes in a Penn Center Inn hotel room.
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Ford
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Betty
Plains
Blair House
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Kennedy Center
Tord
Executive Mansion
Congress
California
Pebble Beach
Fords
Palm Springs
Philadelphia
Penn Center Inn
Barbara Hughes
Napa
Calif
Weather notes for Delaware and Newcastle counties
Fair tonight and partly cloudy today with highs in the 20s. A pattern of increasing clouds Thursday with a mid to upper 20s high. Wind from north to northwest 10 to 20 mph today, easing tonight. Friday partly cloudy with a chance of snow Saturday and sunny Sunday in the 20s. Chester and Wilmington air quality satisfactory with Philadelphia area improving. Precipitation totals show modest monthly figures. sunrise 7:20 a.m. sunset 6:05 p.m.
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