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Hospitals overwhelmed by flu victims
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W e’ve survived the Y 2K bug ..only
to be attacked by the flu bug. Flu
season took hold in earnest over the
holidays. " Influenza ac tiv ity is
picking up in m ost parts o f the
country,” says Keiji Fukuda o f the
C enter for D isease Control.
Doctors all over the U S. agree and
e m e rg e n c y ro o m s a r e b e in g
sw am ped. Dr. Stephen Lynn o f St.
L uke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New
York City has seen hundreds o f flu
cases ju s t in th e last few days.
’’Some years are good flu years. Others
are bad. T h is y ear seem s to be
p a r tic u la r ly
b a d ,’’ h e sa y s.
Som e parts o f the country are faring
w orse than others. H ospitals in New
Y ork, A tlanta and Los A ngeles are
r e p o r tin g a s u r g e in c a s e s .
Dr. Susan S tangloftheU C L A Family
H ealth C enter says that surge has
com e little earlier than usual. “ We*
tend to see m ore flu in January and
February but w e're definitely seeing
a lot o f people, probably a tw enty to
thirty percent increase over last year.”
Sym ptom s include cough, headache
and a high fever that w o n ’t subside.
Even the new anti-flu drugs on the
market w o n ’t help ifyou wait too long
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"For three or four days I’ve been
sick,” says flu victim Shirley Pistor. “I
could practically not get out o f bed.”
The good new s is that this flu is a
known enem y, influenza A, and the
flu shot is still up to 90-percent
effective against it. But doctors admit
at this tim e o f year there are so many
other viruses out there it may be
im possible to avoid them all.
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American aboard hijacked flight back in U.S.
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A ssociated P ress
T he sole A m erican held hostage
aboard an Indian A irlinesjet hijacked
en route to India says passengers
d id n ’t know each day w hether they
w ould eat — or if each meal might be
their last.
“Y ou didn *t know if there w as going
to be a delivery or not,” Jeanne Moore
told A B C ’s “Good Morning America”
in an interview aired Tuesday. “You
d id n ’t know ify o u were going to get
sw arm ed, the guys w ere going to
drop the grenades or not.”
Moore, 53, a special education teacher
from Bakersfield, Calif., arrived at Los
A ngeles International A irport on
Tuesday, exhausted and suffering
from pneum onia and other ailments.
Security officials allowed her to leave
through a separate exit to bypass
reporters and relatives, including her
elderly parents, w ho had w aited at
least two hours for her arrival.
She contracted pneum onia during the
ordeal and was suffering from stomach
problem s, said her brother-in-law
G eorge W elch. Otherwise, she was in
good spirits Tuesday.
“ H er fam ily has her squirreled aw ay
fo ra fe w d a y sso sh e c a n rest because
her health isn ’t the best,” W elch said
outside his in-law s’ home in Burbank.
“ S he’s happy to be back in the good
oldU SA .” She was expected to remain
near Los A ngeles for the next few
days before returning home.
T he eight-day ordeal for M oore and
154 other passengers began when
their je t was hijacked on its w ay from
K atm andu, N epal to New Delhi on
C hristm as Eve. O ne passenger was
killed shortly thereafter.
Suspect in fatal hotel
shooting had been arrested
It ended on N ew Y ear’s Eve after
three Kashmiri activists w ere freed
from Indian jails in exchange for the
155 passengers and crew members.
M oore described a continually tense
atm osphere aboard the plane. She
said one o f her captors struck her on
the head after she m ade a slight
m ovem ent to blow a bug o ff her hand.
“ It was not fun and gam es all the
tim e,” she said. “ I d o n ’t recom m end
it as a vacation to anyone.
“As bad as you think it is, multiply
that by a couple o f tim es and th a t’s
w hat y o u ’ve got.”
While waiting at the airport, her father,
Harold Redding, said the family "did
not know w hat kind o f crazy people
had a hold o f her so w e w ere worried
about her safety.”
He described his daughter as an
“achiever,” and said that the hijacking
probably w o u ld n ’t stop her from
traveling again.
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staying on,” Parcells said.
“ I think one o f the things I have
alw ays tried to pride m yselfon is that
if I did go someplace, when I left there
that it w as a better operation. 1 feel
that w ay now .”
Rhodes, hired by G reen Bay when
M ike H olm gren quit to becom e
S eattle’s coach and general m anager,
was fired after an 8-8 season, with
general m anager Ron W olf saying
Rhodes didn ’ t live up to expectations.
“ Is he a different coach than I thought
he w as?” W o lf said o f R hodes, fired
by Philadelphia after going 3-13 last
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ham pered by a subpar Ricky Watters,
w ho played w ith a brace on his
sprained right knee. W atters was
restricted to 30 yards on nine carries.
“ I’m really excited for the w hole
franchise and everybody to be able
to go to the playoffs,” W atters said.
“ But w hen you lose fiveofthe last six,
th e re ’s got to be a bad taste in
everybody’s mouth.
“ W e have not been getting the jo b
done. I hope everybody feels the
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A hotel housekeeper accused o f killing five n e a p t l|stM v eel^asm rrestad i n .
1997 fo ra stabbing in A labam a but never prosecuted.
T he district attorney in M obile C ounty, A la., said Tuesday that a grand ju ry
refused to indict Silvio Izquierdo-L eyva after investigators failed to get the
victim and a key witness to testify.
Police said Izquierdo-Leyva, 36, fatally shot four co-w orkers at T am p a’s
R'.disson Bay Harbor hotel Thursday, then ki lied a woman in an attem pt to steal
her car. T hree other hotel em ployees w ere wounded.
Izquierdo-Leyva is being held without bail on charges o f murder and caijacking.
A m otive for the shootings has not been disclosed.
N early 200 people attended a funeral Tuesday for Dolores Perdomo, 56, the
m otorist shot in the botched carjacking.
Holly W inn, the w ife o f the A labam a stabbing victim, said Izquierdo-Leyva,
looking “dazed, not his usual self,” show ed up at her hom e a w eek after she
m oved in w ith her future husband. Ms. W inn said Izquierdo-Leyva stabbed
the man repeatedly. The m an needed about 200 stitches, and his face and arm s
are scarred.
M obile C ounty District A ttorney John Tyson said records indicate his office
repeatedly tried to contact Ms. W inn and her husband, Luis G ordillo-Leal, to
ask them to testify but could not reach them.
Ms. W inn said she and G ordillo-Leal m oved to T am pa soon after the stabbing
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Martin.
“ W e cannot win a playoff gam e if we
play like w e did against the Jets," said
Wi 11 iams, w ho played in four playoffs
and a Super Bowl in Pittsburgh from
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A sked if he felt like an A FC West
champion, Williams said: “Personally,
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yet because w e lost against the Jets.”
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