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...bean, which is used around the world in products ranging from laxatives to brake fluid to nylon, and also grows wild in the southwestern U.S., so there's no shortage of raw material. But unlike anthrax, ricin is tough to aerosolize and inhale; the easiest way to deliver a fatal dose is injection or ingestion, and you need a lot for the latter. Ricin is powerful, but it's a retail, not a wholesale, poison...
...think, the quail,' says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since 1975 ... The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide ... the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time ... Shortridge says, 'It's a dangerous situation' ... Since the 1997 outbreak when Hong Kong authorities' citywide slaughter of 1.4 million chickens was largely credited with stopping the flu's spread, the government has instituted several preventive measures: increased testing of imported...
Marasco predicted that the work on the potential cure for the highly infectious and sometimes fatal disease, which killed nearly 800 people last year, will enter the clinical stage...
...label, stating in part, "Cases of life-threatening hepatic failure have been reported in patients treated with Serzone." Over the past few years, the FDA has banned more than half a dozen drugs that it had earlier approved because the drugs turned out to have an unacceptable degree of fatal side effects. That was more than in the previous two decades...
...London prison cell, where he was serving 15 life sentences, one for each person he was convicted of murdering. An investigation later revealed he had killed as many as 260 patients over 23 years, most of them women living alone whom he visited for checkups and injected with fatal doses of heroin...