BIRDS SELDOM SEEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Pseudodontornis and Other Large Marine Birds from T H E Miocene of South Carolina

While engaged in the reorganization of the vertebrate fossil collections at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, the writer discovered the incomplete lower jaw of a large bird from the Miocene phosphate deposits near Charleston, South Carolina. The specimen is clearly referable to the family Pseudodontornithidae, an extinct group of very large oceanic birds characterized by t...

Human Rabies — South Carolina, 2011

On December 3, 2011, a South Carolina woman visited a local emergency department (ED) with an overnight history of shortness of breath, diaphoresis, chills, and intermittent paresthesia. The patient was transferred to a referral hospital, where she became comatose and developed multiorgan failure. The patient did not report a history of an animal bite. However, family members subsequently revea...

Whitner v. South Carolina (1997)

In the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable [4] fetuses. This allowed grounds for prosecution of a pregnant woman?s prenatal activity if those activities endangered or could potentially endanger the fetus [5] within her. The case brought the issue of fetal rights versus pregnant women?s rights to light. T...

Stalkers: the South Carolina experience.

Medical records of 18 pretrial detainees charged with stalking were evaluated at a forensic unit in Columbia, South Carolina from January 1992 to December 1994 and their records were compared with those of 18 offenders in the same unit randomly matched for sex, race, and whether associated crimes were violent or not. Compared variables included age, marital status, level of education, substance...

South Carolina Health Coordinating Council.