Word: nile
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...West Nile, though new to the U.S., has a long history. First reported in Uganda in 1937, it has also affected areas of Europe and the Middle East...
There may be a correlation between summer droughts preceded by mild winters and outbreaks of West Nile virus, according to a researcher at Harvard Medical School...
...Drought is what amplifies the virus among birds and mosquitoes and makes for large outbreaks,” said Paul R. Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Epstein works with a team of researchers on the West Nile virus under the sponsorship of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine...
...despite Epstein’s assertions, some researchers say that more investigation into the connection between droughts and West Nile outbreaks is needed...
...task of making all those dazzling sentences add up to a novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker's odious tabloid, the Lark. What was in a terrorist group's "dirty bomb?"an editor asks. "Radioactive medical waste, Chief, plus ringworm, West Nile virus, liquid gangrene and a cladding of mad cow." The bombing story is squeezed out by news of a man injured outside a kiddies' swimming pool when he is caught watching too closely and flees with his pants round his ankles. Headline: Pervs Him Right. Yellow Dog isn't just...