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...chimpanzee's but with an odd, prominent crest like a gorilla's. Motion-detecting cameras in the forest caught what looked like immense chimpanzees, and a photograph purchased from poachers showed hunters posing with an animal estimated to be twice the size of an ordinary chimp. Ammann measured a fecal dropping three times as big as chimp dung and footprints as large as or larger than a gorilla...
...Asia, there is no program in place to systematically sample migratory birds to determine which viruses they carry. In Europe, virologist Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has launched a survey in which fecal samples are submitted from around the continent for testing. "We've found the proteins that indicate the presence of various avian influenzas," says Osterhaus. The prevalence of viruses in migratory birds may have been responsible for an avian-flu outbreak in the Netherlands last year that infected 80 people, killing one. The virus responsible, an H7, which was less deadly than the H5 strain...
...their country’s maquiladoras. Making clothes for the firm of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs (a.k.a. P. Diddy), Lydda Eli Gonzalez told of poverty wages, long overtime hours, firings for pregnancy and water supplies found to be contaminated with stomach-churning levels of fecal matter. For these denizens of the sweatshops, so-called free trade is not fair trade. Designed to strengthen the freedom of capital, FTAA brings few or no safeguards for the rights of workers...
...sneezes. After the burst of cases in Hong Kong's Amoy Gardens complex and the particularly aggressive spread of SARS in Toronto among health-care workers, however, scientists now speculate that there may be other mechanisms as well. In Amoy Gardens, for example, transmission may have occurred via contaminated fecal matter leaking from a broken sewage pipe. That would explain the lack of direct contact, as well as the fact that all these cases, unlike those in mainland China and Toronto, are characterized by severe diarrhea...
...Florida Health Department issued warnings for several beaches after routine tests detected contamination of fecal bacteria in the water...