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Severe invasive group a streptococcus is the official scientific name, but labels like "deadly flesh-eating bacteria" can be too deliciously terrifying to resist. That's what British tabloids decided when they learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported...
...unwitting carrier of a germ that causes flulike symptoms and sudden, grisly death in almost everyone who comes in contact with it. A simple cough and sniffle are the homely signs of doom. In a series of short, effective scenes that hopscotch around the country -- a small town in East Texas, a disease-control lab in Vermont, the streets of New York City -- the plague spreads, causing death, panic, chaos. Practically all that remains of civilization is talk-radio etiquette. A radio host (Kathy Bates), enraged about the "superflu" cover-up, takes calls from panicked listeners who tell of dying...
...germ of Danforth's dilemma is more potent today than when Miller wrote the play in 1953. Conviction and acquittal are reached solely on the basis of personal testimony, character witness, and most importantly, the social climate which dictates the popular mood under which judgments are reached. Walling effectively draws Abigail as malicious and manipulative, playing with her power as she would a dumb...
...Jeremy Rifkin, don't buy that line. They point out that cows treated with BGH are more susceptible to udder infections, and they are worried that unless milk is rigorously inspected, antibiotics used to treat the cows could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones...
...airplane. Instead of getting his flight, he was assigned to a secret medical unit that performed experiments on prisoners in Manchuria. Now 65 and a construction worker, he is still tormented by the memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people at Hachioji, near Tokyo. "But when I think that the rats and fleas I bred were used in experiments which killed...