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Unsure of what to do, a small group of American soldiers, who had landed only hours before, stood aside to let the trio pass. Once inside the terminal, the Haitian officers began methodically beating their silent and defenseless prisoner. Listening to the sickening thud of fists on flesh, one of the U.S. soldiers turned his face away and exclaimed, "They're really messing him up. And we can't do anything...
...harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto the unprotected skull of a house painter, killing him. "This is not Europe, my friend," said a Haitian to a nearby journalist. "This is hell...
...human remains horrified and sickened even experienced rescue workers. For the most part they found not bodies, just pieces of bodies. Lew Napolitan, who lives close by and ran to the scene, could not forget the sight of a thighbone covered with burned flesh. Monty Winchester, a member of the fire department in nearby South Heights, "came in this ((Friday)) morning after picking up parts of bodies all night, and he was pretty sick," said his friend Daniel Godich. "He had to take one guy out of a tree in pieces, and that was bad enough, but when he came...
...anxiety about disease. It's getting harder to enjoy a meal, make love or even take a walk in the woods without a bit of fear in the back of the mind. No wonder people pay an unreasonable amount of attention when tabloids trumpet headlines about "flesh-eating bacteria." And no wonder Stephen King's The Stand, a TV mini-series based on his novel about a "superflu" that ravages the world's population, earned some of the year's highest ratings...
...medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A, the infamous flesh-eating bacteria. What appears to make this variant of strep such a quick and vicious killer is that the bacterium itself is infected with a virus, which spurs the germ to produce especially powerful toxins. (It was severe, invasive strep A that killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990.) If strep A is on the rise, as some believe, it will be dosed with antibiotics, and may well become resistant to some or all of the drugs...