The hot steam in the bathroom was making David feel sick and weak.

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Many of them, it was said, had traveled overland, were weak and fell sick easily.

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But Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is now powerless against the strain that has been found in people in the community rather than sick patients with serious underlying conditions and weak immune systems.

BBC: Drug-resistant pandemic swine flu 'community risk'

This single piece of legislation, which would have died but for Steiger's persistence, lifted the very weak American capital markets off of their sick beds and spurred an entrepreneurial boom that continues today.

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