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Flu takes a surprising toll: The young and the healthy

JETERSVILLE, VA. -- On Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-year-old Heaven Skyler Wilson dragged herself off the school bus that stopped in front of her home on a rural road in Jetersville, just south of Richmond. The little girl, who had never had so much as an ear ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fatal shooting of student splits community known for love of the outdoors

FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the woods. In the years that she' ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

For bubbly Va. 6-year-old, swine flu's attack came quick and strong

JETERSVILLE, VA. -- On Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-year-old Heaven Skyler Wilson dragged herself off the school bus that dropped her in front of her home on a rural road in Jetersville, just south of Richmond. The little girl, who had never had so much as an ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

'Balloon Boy' Hits Familial Nerve

It has been almost 14 years since Laurie Dewhirst Young sat on the beach with her infant son in her arms and turned to find her 3-year-old daughter had vanished. But she can instantly conjure the sick panic she felt. "Your heart clenches tight," she ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Falcon Heene,  Jeep

Health care worries abound on Maryland street

Chuck at 115 Linden Hall Lane worries about losing the monthly $9,000 infusions of a drug that keeps his lungs from collapsing. his or her private frustrations to a public meeting; no one has lobbied a lawmaker. Martha, who lives at 113 and is ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, Monterey County Herald,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Bayer

Health-Care Debate Saps Energy of Those at Its Heart

The people who live around the pretty courtyard and well-kept lawns of Linden Hall Lane in Gaithersburg are like much of America. They have glaucoma and asthma. They've had foot surgeries, aneurysms and heart attacks. They've become disabled or never ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

A Swine Flu Germ Factory

On a Saturday in mid-August, my friend Molly and I were on our way back home to Alexandria after picking up our sons, Liam and Colby, from their week-long sleep-away summer camp on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The boys were tanned, not nearly as dirty as ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  4 Sep 2009

Recession Travel: A Family of Four Visits Cape Cod on a Budget

Summer was near, and we needed a break from the hectic pace of work and school and violin lessons and errands and to-do lists, but like just about everyone else on the globe, we were feeling the recession's bite. When the plummeting 401(k) and 529 ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  30 Aug 2009

Related Topics: AB Volvo,  Wal-Mart

Nature preserve on high alert status

Joe Fehrer, manager of Nassawango Nature Preserve on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has set the rules: No photos of the horizon or any landscape feature that might identify this place. No naming the back road that leads here. The obsessive cone of silence ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, Boston Globe,  23 Aug 2009

Orchid Heads Scramble Over Rare Flower in Nassawango Nature Preserve

Joe Fehrer, manager of Nassawango Nature Preserve on Maryland's Eastern Shore, has set the rules: No photos of the horizon or any landscape feature that might identify this place. No naming the back road that leads here. The obsessive cone of silence ...

From BRIGID SCHULTE, The Washington Post,  21 Aug 2009

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