Word: bitten
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After examining the two, Flores discovered both had been bitten on their toes; the clean incisions and the profuse bleeding were telltale signs of a vampire bat attack. The vampire's bite is quick and razor sharp, so the sleeping victim doesn't feel the incision; and the animal's saliva contains a strong anticoagulating agent that leaves the victim bleeding for hours after the bite...
...groundhog • hand of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is bitten by • Sue Simmons does impression...
...moment? And if the responsibility must fall largely on the shoulders of one man, does it have to be a guy in an ill-fitting suit who has a reputation for occasionally putting his foot in his mouth? The one who speaks in a disembodied patter while his nail-bitten fingers fiddle with his constant liquid sidekick, a can of Diet Coke? And then, just when you begin to ask yourself these questions, Summers starts speaking with an almost poetic clarity, in those perfectly formed sentences that have made him an in-house economist for three of the past five...
Doctors at Bali's largest hospital told the press they suspected that rabies was the cause of death for a resident admitted to the hospital last week convulsing and foaming at the mouth. The number of patients bitten by infected animals jumped from 15 in December to 10 each day since the beginning of January, according to officials. "It could be that in the past few months, there were a number of cases that weren't reported," Ken Wirasandhi, the hospital's director of services, told the Kompas daily. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...will become very difficult and costly to eradicate," said a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official who asked not to be named. Part of the reason the disease is complicated to control is its long latency. Rabies symptoms manifest within two to three weeks if a person has been bitten on the face, or as late as 12 months if the bite is on the leg. Generally, if an infected person is not vaccinated immediately, there is little chance of survival...