21.   Dengue can, however, cause death by internal bleeding, but usually only in victims who contract the illness a second time.

22.   Dengue can cause death by internal bleeding in victims who contract the illness a second time.

23.   Eighty people are reported to have contracted the illness, half of whom have died, Girardet said.

24.   Hashim said the woman had not been a resident of the athletes village and might have contracted her illness before she arrived in Kuala Lumpur.

25.   Health officials have not determined where they contracted the illness.

26.   Most of them contracted the illness through drug use, with the rate of new cases diagnosed falling sharply in recent years.

27.   Once their immune system loses the ability to fight off infection, they typically contract such illnesses as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

28.   Rexrodt apparently contracted the illness while traveling in Africa.

29.   The first person to contract the illness outside the United States was reported in Kenya earlier Wednesday.

30.   The Health Ministry said the risk of human contamination was minimal and there was no threat of consumers contracting serious illnesses.