She was often exhausted by the thought of how generous she was, whereas the exhaustion really stemmed from the strain of not giving away anything at all.

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On one flight studied, one passenger spread a particular strain to someone seated seven rows away, while people seated next to the ill passenger didn't contract the disease.

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If that trend continues, we are likely to see even higher levels of the vaccine-resistant strain appear by the peak of the season, still weeks away.

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Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).

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Lennon added that defender Glenn Loovens, linked with a possible move away from Celtic, had not been dropped, but was absent because of a hamstring strain.

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