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...schools and treating the sick for free. The sluggish response to the infection is raising questions about the Japanese government's ability to cope with medical emergencies. "The World Health Organization says this outbreak is the worst in modern history," reports TIME's Frank Gibney from Tokyo. "The culprit is a particularly virulent strain of e.Coli bacteria that originates in animal intestines. Although it is seldom fatal, the bacterium is one of the world's most agile and potent bacilli, almost impossible to stop once it is loose in the human food chain." Symptoms of 0157 E.coli infection include dehydration...
...cyclospora, the intestinal illnesses that infected some 850 people in the United States and Canada, federal health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that when investigators traced 21 cases back to their source, they identified raspberries grown in some regions of Guatemala as the culprit. The fruits were contaminated with microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine and causes watery diarrhea. Antibiotics cure the infection, but diarrhea and other symptoms can last weeks. ? Jenifer Mattos
...feels like the worst case of Montezuma's revenge you've ever had. Stomach cramps. Vomiting. Diarrhea that persists for days, if not weeks. The culprit? It could be raw vegetables, a fruit salad or those juicy fresh strawberries you just ate. At least that's what health officials were saying last week, when they announced that over the past two months a few hundred people in the U.S. and Canada have been stricken with a new and mysterious intestinal infection. So far, no deaths have been reported, although a few people have been hospitalized for severe dehydration. But what...
...still warm quickly determined that both fires were indeed the result of arson. (They also confirmed a failed arson attempt at an all-white church nearby.) They ruled out an insurance scam by church personnel. And since no outsider would have known the tiny Central Grove church existed, the culprit was probably a local...
...caused the crash. Investigators, wading through thick heat, razor-sharp saw grass, toxic jet fuel and the almost cartoonish threat of alligators, first speculated that the 27-year-old DC-9 was struck down by some combination of age and poor maintenance. Now they are focusing on a new culprit: the 50 to 60 oxygen generators believed to have been stowed--perhaps mistakenly--in the forward cargo hold of the aircraft. The generators, which are used on some planes to provide oxygen if the cabin undergoes sudden depressurization, can get as hot as 500 degrees F when activated; the heat...