Many a job was neglected for employees in their cubicles and for college students, classes either skipped or attended, but with a laptop in tow as the world caught on to that sweet, sweet Pac-Man fever.

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That's enough to give you Pac-Man fever.

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There's a woman who's fainted, one who fell out of bed, another who's hurt her wrist, one complaining of numbness, the 91-year-old man with a lingering fever and a woman who's having trouble swallowing.

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Andrew Grove, a man who survived the Nazis, the Communists, scarlet fever, prostate cancer and Bill Gates to run what was briefly one of the world's five most valuable companies, is saddled with a disease that will eventually rob him of control over his body.

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Smith, the NBA's top sixth man, played just hours after spiking a 102-degree fever that nearly kept him out.

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The man suffered a five centimetre bite wound on the side of his right calf which produced a red swelling and fever.

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