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The sudden detection of the new swine influenza virus, A(H1N1), occurred just as scientists were focusing wary eyes on behavioral changes observed in another virus, the A(H5N1) bird flu strain, in Egypt. The W.H.O. and public-health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find themselves in a delicate balance, obliged to provide information about potentially lethal diseases without causing panic.

The sudden detection of the new swine influenza virus, A(H1N1), occurred just as scientists were focusing wary eyes on behavioral changes observed in another virus, the A(H5N1) bird flu strain, in Egypt. The W.H.O. and public-health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find themselves in a delicate balance, obliged to provide information about potentially lethal diseases without causing panic

The 33-year-old student, Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, having been banished from the medical school of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on the ground that he falsified his high school records, has now been admitted to a second well-known medical school: Uppsala, Sweden's oldest university. The circumstances of Mr. Svensson's admission to Uppsala's first-year class - reported in January by Swedish news organizations - are unknown, because none of the officials involved will publicly discuss his case. He apparently uses an assumed name - a customary practice for Swedes seeking to remain anonymous because of a personal threat. Last week, Uppsala officials, responding to concerns about Mr. Svensson's admission, said he had not participated in class work, but did not say why. The Swedish medical licensing agency said that it would not allow Mr. Svensson to practice even if he earned his medical degree. But because the agency's jurisdiction excludes universities, questions arose about whether and how medical school officials should inform patients examined by Mr. Svensson about his criminal past, and what the patients' responses would be

The 33-year-old student, Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, having been banished from the medical school of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on the ground that he falsified his high school records, has now been admitted to a second well-known medical school - Uppsala, Sweden's oldest university. The circumstances of Mr. Svensson's admission to Uppsala's first-year class - reported in January by Swedish news organizations - are unknown, because none of the officials involved will publicly discuss his case. He apparently uses an assumed name - a customary practice for Swedes seeking to remain anonymous because of a personal threat. Last week, Uppsala officials, responding to concerns about Mr. Svensson's admission, said he had not participated in class work, but did not say why. The Swedish medical licensing agency said that it would not allow Mr. Svensson to practice even if he earned his medical degree. But because the agency's jurisdiction excludes universities, questions arose about whether and how medical school officials should inform patients examined by Mr. Svensson about his criminal past, and what the patients' responses would be

In 2008, questions were also added about military discharge history and misdemeanor convictions. Since Mr. Svensson had done nothing wrong in medical school, Karolinska officials said they were powerless to expel him until they discovered his falsified records, blaming the Swedish agency responsible for checking the validity of educational records

In a conversation published in 2001 in the scientific journal Addiction, Dr. Lieber said his first significant discovery was using antibiotics to reduce the stomach's ability to convert one compound, urea, into another, ammonia, which has a deleterious effect on the brain. In the 1950s, studying patients with alcoholic liver disease, he showed that reducing the amount of ammonia produced in the stomach paralleled their clinical improvement

Ms. Nash underwent more than seven hours of surgery by four teams of surgeons at Stamford Hospital. Because of privacy laws, officials would not comment on Ms. Nash's course of treatment

The team broke the chain of Ebola virus transmission by providing protective clothing for hospital workers, sterilizing equipment and strictly isolating patients in their villages.

Dr. Close's role in the crisis began on a flight from Geneva to Kinshasa. Overhearing comments between two epidemiologists sent from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to help control the epidemic, Dr. Close asked to join in the conversation. On arrival in Kinshasa, Dr. Close, a man with a take-charge personality, was able to help commandeer pilots and airplanes to ferry equipment to where it was needed. Dr. Peter Piot, a co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, said Dr. Close played 'an indispensable' role in controlling the epidemic by using his direct access to [Mobutu Sese Seko] to gain political and military logistic support

Dr. Close was both personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, now known as Congo, and chief doctor of the army at the time of the epidemic, which caused widespread panic in the country, three doctors involved in helping to control it recalled in interviews. The team broke the chain of Ebola virus transmission by providing protective clothing for hospital workers, sterilizing equipment and strictly isolating patients in their villages