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...Poison Deadlier Than Arsenic...
...first time while she is pregnant, there is a risk that the baby will be born with a disfiguring or fatal case of cowpox. But if a pregnant woman is going to an area where smallpox always smolders, she should be vaccinated anyway, because the smallpox is far deadlier than any vaccine...
...Cold as Marble. When the fever began its rampages three years ago in Bolivia's northeastern province of Beni, the dirt-poor villagers around San Joaquin called it "the black typhus." But this was a far deadlier disease. It struck almost one-third of the population, and killed about one-third of its victims. Men and women of all ages were stricken. First came fever, chills and headache. Then, in many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes...
...declined from nearly 7,000,000 to fewer than 4,000,000, and the farm population has shrunk from 25% of the total population to less than 10%. But a technological revolution has taken place in U.S. agriculture-the combined effect of more and better machinery, more efficient fertilizers, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plant varieties. As a result, productivity-production per worker-has increased much faster on the farms than it has in the factories. Just in the past decade, production per farm worker has soared...
What remains to be tested? In spite of the stockpiled ability to overkill, testing is still profitable. All experts believe that nuclear explosives can be "improved" -made deadlier and more precise-by slow refinement and by large technical breakthroughs. Explosive efficiencies are still far below the theoretical maximums...