Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tammy Lowery couldn't see the blood vessels rupturing in her gut, but the way she was feeling, she didn't have to. Lowery had been sick for five days, growing steadily worse as the week wore on. First had come the stomach pains. Then the bloody diarrhea. Then the paralyzing cramps. She had laid off food for a while, figuring the problem would pass. It didn't. Finally, as July 4 approached--when Lowery should have been at the Alpine, Wyo., gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence...
...some cases, hospitalized. But up to 1% do die--mostly children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. In all cases, antibiotics are not only useless but may actually make things worse, causing the bacteria to rupture and spill their toxin even more widely throughout the gut. Says Nancy Donley, a safe-food activist whose son died of E. coli infection: "We're not talking about minor gastrointestinal distress. It is a brutally ugly death...
...breathe deeply; I am barely able to breathe at all. The reward for my five minutes of suffering is Achkar's announcement that my colon is in "perfect condition." It does not feel that way: all that air pumped inside me has brought on cramps that contort my gut. Debby counsels me to let it out. "This is one time to forget everything your grandmother taught you about good manners," she tells...
...advisory panel last week urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a novel vaccine developed by SmithKline Beecham under the name Lymerix. The vaccine works when the tick is sucking the victim's blood, launching antibodies against the bacteria even before they've left the tick's gut. Although it took three shots over 12 months to achieve it, the vaccine gave immunity to 90% of the test subjects ages 15 to 65 (it is somewhat less effective in the very old). The only side effect reported was some soreness from the shots themselves...
...NJIT loss, a five-set heartbreaker, was particularly gut-wrenching since the Crimson took the first two games before losing the last three. The final set was a point-for-point thriller, which Harvard finally lost...