Word: effluent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets bad. And that means one of those decongestant/antihistamine combos you may already be using (like Triaminic, Contac or Drixoral). Of course, you're then faced with cracked lips, a scratchy throat and stinging eyes, but it's good to know that apart from drying up the offending effluent they are probably helping to shorten the disease cycle. So stock up on those pills and syrups, and just think - this winter, you could be spared one of the annoyances of the season: the inevitable balls of lint left sticking to clothes after a long-forgotten tissue is put through...
Inadequate sanitation often provides new pathways for infectious agents. In Mexico cysticercosis, caused by a tapeworm that invades the human brain, used to be transmitted primarily by improperly cooked pork. Now people are getting the disease from vegetables grown in fields irrigated by water containing effluent that flows into the Tula River from Mexico City. Brinkmann estimates that more than half of the 300 million urban poor in the developing world are in a permanently weakened condition because they carry one or more parasites...
...coming in, it snowed last week in Colorado, punctuating several days of unseasonable 32 degrees C (90 degrees F) weather with enough snowfall to close three mountain highways. Paris was hit with a torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city, poisoned the Seine with sewer effluent, and clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest...