Of the 31 patients at Holley in mid-May, seven were multidrug resistant, meaning that the usual cocktail of antibiotics and vitamins no longer worked, either because the patients did not properly take their first course of medication or because they caught a strain with that resistant mutation.
He caught a strain of the capitalist bug long before it became pandemic.
She tells me she also got caught in a shootout; climbed into a cage with a leopard for a dare; and caught a severe strain of malaria in Mozambique.
Trainers have wrung their hands and horseplayers have scratched their heads week after week this spring as one 3-year-old after another has caught a cold, strained a ligament or failed to live up to expectations en route to the first Saturday in May.
I find myself looking out for the likes of Johnny Harris, Eddie Marsan and Daniel Mays, or Maxine Peake, Lesley Sharp and Holli Dempsey as a keen birdwatcher might strain to catch a glimpse of the rare spotted sandpiper – and these rank among working-class actors who do work.
To watch it now is to catch a glimpse of an alternative strain of British cinema, and to witness the raw "piss-taking" promise of a crop of actors who flourished for a moment and then were gone.
They swarmed three floors of indoor balconies, straining to catch a glimpse of Hadid giving a talk in an inner courtyard below.
Toni Schacha, a cafe owner, laid down his caulking gun on a stack of sandbags and strained to catch a glimpse of her.
Walking across the many abandoned colonies, I strained to catch a glimpse of chicks, but as we neared the other side of the island it was clear that the young Adélies were gone.
En route to the airport in Lilongwe, Malawi, where crowds of people strained to catch a glimpse of him, Mr. Clinton suddenly halted the motorcade, conducted an impromptu interview in the middle of the road, then plunged into a throng of young men reaching out to touch him.
