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Jan 29, 05, 5:57 pm
If you Like Exotic Travel, Watch Out for Exotic Diseases
By Associated Press
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death.
What would make the chief financial officer for the city of Phoenix do something so bizarre? One theory is a parasite doctors believe he caught on a trip to Mexico several years earlier. The bug can live for years inside the body, travel to the brain and cause seizures and hallucinations - symptoms Keogh started suffering a few months after his trip.
Boston Herald.com link (http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=65878)
By Associated Press
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death.
What would make the chief financial officer for the city of Phoenix do something so bizarre? One theory is a parasite doctors believe he caught on a trip to Mexico several years earlier. The bug can live for years inside the body, travel to the brain and cause seizures and hallucinations - symptoms Keogh started suffering a few months after his trip.
Boston Herald.com link (http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=65878)