Word: infectives
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...rainfall and the less likely you are to get parasitic fungi and footworms. Fay has already accumulated four nasty footworms, which burrow under the skin until they discover that you are not a pig or elephant -- their proper hosts. The worms then die, but bacteria in the little corpses infect your feet...
Shellfish are also highly susceptible to bacterial and viral contamination, since they live close to the shore, where pollution tends to be worst. Cooking generally destroys the microbes that infect shellfish, but eating raw clams, ^ oysters and other shellfish is linked to nearly 1,000 cases of hepatitis each year...
...current figures about AIDS weren't grim enough, a new Harvard School of Public Health study finds that HIV threatens to infect as many as 120 million people by the end of the century. This doubles previous predictions and estimates that the number of people who develop AIDS over the next three years will exceed the total afflicted with it in the epidemic's 11-year history to date...
...professors call for the Law School torecognize "the prejudices that infect ourFaculty's continued failure to appreciate both theneed for diversity and the capacity of members ofdiverse in our society...
...Institute, a think tank in Indianapolis. "It establishes Rifkin as the Stephen King of food horror stories." Among other things, Rifkin raises the specter of beef contaminated with viruses, including a bovine immunodeficiency virus that he provocatively labels "COW AIDS," though there is no evidence that the virus can infect humans. Rifkin also charges that inspection of carcasses is shoddy, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture flatly denies. However, even the American Meat Institute allows that the inspection system, which still relies on visually examining and touching meat, hasn't changed much since 1906 and needs more up-to-date...