Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's medical advisers say the newly detected swine flu strain is similar to the lethal virus that caused some 20 million deaths worldwide during the 1918-19 global flu pandemic. The new strain showed up at Fort Dix, N.J., where a 19-year-old Army recruit died of flu-related pneumonia in February. Investigators also found direct evidence of swine flu in eleven other men and signs of exposure to the virus-determined by the presence in the blood of antibodies to the new strain-in 273 others. Yet a subsequent check of 50 men hospitalized...
...tests showed that at least a dozen of the soldiers-including an 18-year-old who died of flu-related pneumonia-had been infected with a new and more worrisome viral strain. Medical experts are concerned that the virus, usually seen only in swine, may be similar to the lethal virus that probably caused some 20 million deaths-including 548,000 in the U.S.-during the great global flu "pandemic...
...guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter the Arabs' Russian-built SAMs by drawing antiaircraft fire. To bolster its ground forces, Jerusalem is acquiring the TOW antitank missiles, the Cobra helicopter gunship and the most lethal version of the M-60 tank...
There were no obvious clues-no telltale marks on the body. Yet the deaths occurred so quickly and unexpectedly that the staff realized that they could not have been accidental. A killer was on the loose in the hospital, someone intimately familiar with all of modern medicine's lethal drugs and tools. It was a psychopathic physician whose mind had twisted from healing to homicide...
...investigation indicated that at least 18 of the victims-including nine of those who died-had been given Pavulon, or pancuronium bromide, a synthetic variant of curare, the lethal plant toxin used by South American Indians to tip poison darts. Anaesthesiologists sometimes administer Pavulon to surgical patients to relax their muscles, but hospital records showed that no doctor had prescribed its use on any of the victims...