Word: ebola
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...even without high-tech delivery systems, a single suicidal terrorist spraying a few drops of smallpox virus--or a liquid solution of Ebola or even plague--in a crowded mall or into the ventilation system of a large building could cause untold harm...
...bombings. Aid workers estimated that they would have to provide 55,000 tons a month to feed all 6 million people thought to be in need. Another threat to the refugees appeared in the Pakistan border town of Quetta, where 75 people have caught Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, an Ebola-like disease that causes victims to bleed to death from the body's orifices. Seemingly anxious to reduce...
...doesn't take an exotic virus like Ebola to transform the U.S. into a hot zone. A single case of smallpox could put the entire nation at risk. The smallpox virus is highly contagious and would spread quickly because Americans are not vaccinated. Routine inoculations were halted in 1972. People vaccinated before 1972 lost most of their immunity within 10 years...
...cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come on, over 20,000 women can't be wrong PENTHOUSE READERS 94-year...
DIED. MATTHEW LUKWIYA, Ugandan doctor who led the country's fight to contain an Ebola outbreak that began in September; days after showing symptoms of the disease; in Gulu, Uganda. Lukwiya, who was in his early 40s, was the first to recognize that people were contracting the virus and is credited for the relatively low death toll, which reached 156 last week...