Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many juries promise a continuing spot on daytime television, to say nothing of the prospect of big money for anyone willing to sell an inside account of the verdict deliberations. But even if the Simpson trial is in a class by itself, it still promises to exemplify problems that infect the American jury system as a whole. Those include the likely attempt by lawyers to skew the panel along racial and gender lines, plus a surfeit of dense testimony, in this case about the scientific validity of DNA evidence, in a trial that threatens to go on for so long...
...sake of public safety and the country as a whole, this is better than if the granddaddy of the far-right extremist movement presented a united front. If we're lucky they'll expend their energy fighting each other, and they won't have anything left to infect the American body politic...
...viruses keep arising to challenge the vaccine makers. They may have gone undetected for centuries, inhabiting animal populations that have no contact with mankind. If people eventually encounter the animals -- by settling a new part of the rain forest, for example -- the virus can have the opportunity to infect a different sort of host...
Viruses like Ebola and X are scary, but they're too deadly to be much of a threat to the world. Their victims don't have much of a chance to infect others before dying. In contrast, HIV, the AIDS virus -- which may have come from African primates as early as the 1950s -- is a more subtle killing machine, and thus more of an evolutionary success. An infected person will typically carry HIV for years before symptoms appear. Thus, even though HIV doesn't move easily from one human to another, it has many chances to try. Since the first...
...blisters, and then the flesh rips. Blood begins to flow from every one of his body's orifices. The victim coughs up black vomit, sloughing off parts of his tongue, throat and windpipe. His organs fill with blood and fail. He suffers seizures, splattering virus-saturated blood that can infect anyone nearby. Within a few days the victim dies, and as the virus destroys his remaining cells, much of his tissue actually liquefies...