Word: cholerae
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...likelier attack might be mounted against a smaller, enclosed system. A few drops of cholera bacteria, for example, could poison the water tank of an apartment house. Or a terrorist might use pathogens, including botulism, to attack a bottler of specialty water or a dairy. But overall these are poor options for biowarriors...
...Experts in antiterrorism share their concern. At the turn of the past century, says Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corp., epidemics of diseases like yellow fever and cholera kept health workers on their toes. Now, after a decade of cutbacks, "our ability to treat large numbers of casualties has been reduced," he says. "The notion of reinvesting to create a muscular public health system is not a bad idea, even if there is no terrorism...
...volleyball nets, read Bible stories and show religious films off the boat's generator. For Roni, everyday worries included making sure her adopted son, Cory, 7, didn't fall into the sweeping undertow of the brown river and keeping her newly adopted baby, Charity, safe from cholera and malaria...
...protesting squatters in Alexandra township as local council officials moved in to remove them. The eviction order on 3,500 families living along the Jukskei River that runs through Alexandra came after squatter shacks were washed away by floodwaters and the river was found to be contaminated with cholera. The government is trying to curb a cholera outbreak that has already resulted in some 18,000 infections and more than 70 deaths...
...viper venoms and synthesized nontoxic versions of them in the lab. They are talking to drug companies about doing additional research in animals and, eventually, people. If those studies pan out, Moreno says, viper-venom antibiotics could be put in everything from mouthwashes to contact lenses to fight salmonella, cholera, staph and strep...