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...course, one solution is to use an anti-virus program such as F-Prot (available for free from www.datafellows.com) to prevent and disinfect viruses. But, as the saying goes, one ounce of prevention beats 100 pounds of cure, and avoiding a virus in the first place is the best option...
...Munigi camp is about six miles up the road from Goma. Two relief workers lift a girl in a pretty turquoise dress and feel her neck for a pulse. Finding none, they carry her over to the pile of corpses, which they will douse in chlorine to disinfect them. But as they put her down, her head turns. Quickly they take her back to the tent where they are treating victims, but do not bother to set up an IV. She is too sick to save, the workers explained. "But she's moving," says one, "so you can't just...
...hygiene, all spread by floodwater, are already giving health officials headaches. Thanks to at least 18 breached sewage plants, microbes have penetrated the nearly 800 miles of piping that keeps the Des Moines area's 250,000 residents supplied with drinking water; it & will take a month to disinfect the system. Tetanus is another concern, especially for sandbaggers and rescuers slogging through the slimy silt and sewage-invested waters. And then there is encephalitis, a viral disease that inflames the spinal cord and brain and can produce a combination of low-grade fever, seizures and even coma. It is transmitted...
...takes people a while to get used to living in Orlando. This is a city where they vacuum the streets at night and disinfect the public telephones with Lysol, where the airport has a moat with live alligators in it, where you can buy your hubcaps at Hubcap World. "At first Orlando weirded me out," says Bob Simonds, 28, a producer from Los Angeles who filmed a movie there. "I saw it as a big Disney production. It seemed like a fraud, a city on overload. Now I love this place. It's like Norman Rockwell's America or Dennis...
...efforts in Peru have been hampered by a strike among health-care workers. When Bolivia tried to send doctors to the Andean village of Puno, where an outbreak was beginning, the medical team was asked to stay home. Finally the strikers allowed a limited number of Bolivian technicians to disinfect Puno's sewage pipes with chlorine...