Word: alerting
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...spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed the government would cull their poultry?including fighting cocks worth as much as $480 each. "We hoped it would just disappear," says villager Chanpen Rachsawang...
While news of the attacks reached several student group and House e-mail lists, members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) said they should have received an alert from HUPD...
...There are rapes and other kinds of sexual assaults reported every single day in the Boston area, including in Cambridge,” she wrote in an e-mail. “I am sorry to say that I think if we sent an alert every time a rape was reported, people would simply stop paying attention to them...
Northeastern University sent an e-mail alert about the crimes out to all students to “make sure that they take it seriously and take every precaution,” said spokeswoman Brylee Maxfield...
...phosgene, two chemicals used during World War I as choking agents. A second attack occurred at a bank in the same building four days later. In neither case was the toxic concentration high enough to cause permanent injury. But it was enough to put the government on the alert. European terrorism experts tell Time that the attacks do not suggest jihadist terrorists, who tend to maximize damage and casualties. However, if the attacks turn out to be acts of terrorism, they would be Europe's first using toxic chemicals, experts say. Police have yet to make any arrests. Forensic psychiatrist...