Word: diarrheas
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...Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like...
...envelope tested negative.] But the symptoms that I've had are what was described to me in a letter they put out, almost to a tee. Except I haven't had any vomiting, except just until a few minutes ago. I'm not bleeding, and I don't have diarrhea. The doctor thought that it was just a virus or something, so we went with that, and I was taking Tylenol for the achiness. Except the shortness of breath now--I don't know--that's consistent with the anthrax...
...town is desiccated and almost deserted. The 2,000 people who remain strip the ship hulks for scrap and fish for chemically laced carp in a small, shrinking lake to the east. The population has abnormally high rates of acute respiratory infections and cancer, kidney disease, iodine deficiency, diarrhea, birth defects and defoliant poisoning. Close to 90% are anemic. TB has killed 27 people since January 2000 and infected hundreds more. "Life here used to be so good," says Borliqboy Olloyorov, whose creased face makes him look older than his 50 years and whose TB seems certain to kill...
Doctors stress that the side effects of Cipro, one of the newest fluoroquinolones, are no worse than those of penicillin and tetracyclines. Common complaints associated with the drug are nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. About 3% of patients in clinical trials had to stop taking it because of stomach pain, skin rashes, lightheadedness or headache. Fewer than 1% experienced the more severe events, including the torn tendons, hallucinations and seizures...
...doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...