Word: bugging
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Burns’ latest follows the fates of a group of teenagers in mid-seventies Seattle as they fall victim to a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as “the Bug.” The origins of the disease are never revealed, but that omission is unimportant amidst the grotesque developments and explicit violence presented in perfect detail. As Burns has remarked, “It was extremely fucking labor-intensive...
...knows how H. pylori gets into the stomach--it may be through eating, touching or even kissing--and 80% of people who are infected with the bug never develop ulcers. There may even be some truth to the old ulcer myths: stress and spicy food don't create ulcers, but they can certainly make them worse...
...Warren and Marshall spent months trying to culture the bug (later named Helicobacter pylori). Once successful, they tried in vain to get the medical establishment to test their theory that H. pylori caused ulcers. Failing that, Marshall, the more daring salesman of the two, tested it on himself in 1984, swallowing the vile brew and infecting himself with an agonizing case of gastritis. He then treated himself with antibiotics and embarked on a campaign to rewrite the medical textbooks. He succeeded. Read any medical textbook today, and you?ll see that H. pylori is acknowledged as the cause...
...sexually inserts a videotape into his stomach. A man’s head explodes into large bloody pieces. A man tears off a piece of himself and discovers he has become part insect. A man is convinced by a gigantic talking bug-typewriter to murder his wife...
...closing schools and canceling sporting events in an attempt to control the virus' spread, and on distributing antivirals from the country's stockpile of 4 million doses. That sounds like a lot of antivirals - and per capita only Finland has more - but it would be "woefully inadequate" if the bug were rampant, says Peter Curson, director of health studies at Sydney's Macquarie University. NIPAC says the supply is sufficient to protect up to a million of the country's essential service workers for about six weeks. The grim conclusion is that for the duration of a pandemic beginning...