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...Doctors are experimenting with new ways to deliver lethal radiation that more closely targets the tumor and takes just a few days at most?compared with the more usual six-week regimen?to finish...
...method, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais boasted to his comrade, required an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate its victims. At another point in the bugged telephone call, Ben Khemais refers to a "gas bomb," seemingly a much more lethal device, though apparently just as makeshift...
Rome's chief prosecutor Salvatore Vecchione said the substance appeared to be potassium ferrocyanide, a chemical commonly used in gardening and textile dyeing. According to Aldo Lagana, a professor of analytic chemistry at Rome's La Sapienza University, the substance is not lethal when diluted in water. Lagana noted, however, that potassium ferrocyanide can easily be ignited by ordinary gunpowder. "If you burn it in a closed environment," he says, "you can have a very serious situation." The arrested men might have had an attack of this sort - in a subway, perhaps - in mind...
...jumped directly from a bird to a human. Eighteen people were infected; six died. And the outbreak caused worldwide concern among health experts, who feared a possible global pandemic. Now, despite what is described as a first-class surveillance system for its poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts can't explain why. But a lack of coordinated regulations, record keeping and research between Hong Kong and southern China is one reason for their inability to get to the root of the problem. And vested economic interests are keeping...
...past three global flu pandemics are thought to have originated in the south of China. The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Considering the lethal history, scientists are keen to track the mutations of the latest virus. Although only the 1997 variant infected humans, the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time."We do not know enough about H5N1," Shortridge says. "It's a dangerous situation...