Word: nile
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...Immunizations at University Health Services (UHS). Whoops! The Charles is only safe to swim in 360 out of 365 days of the year, so you'll have to take rabies, tetanus and West Nile virus shots. Don't worry, trained professionals will be injecting those huge needles in your arm...it won't hurt...
...WEST NILE VIRUS In the second year of a much feared and overpublicized medical crisis, public-health officials in the Northeast intensified their campaign against mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus. Spraying programs were launched from Boston to Baltimore, Md., and wildlife pathologists began searching for clues in the carcasses of crows, chickens, chipmunks and even a few bears. Only a handful of human deaths have occurred so far, but scientists are working hard to figure out how the disease spreads. Most of what they've gained is a deeper understanding of mortality among wildlife...
...there is yet another dimension to national security. Last summer's West Nile virus outbreak in New York City extending up to Boston was also a situation putting the life of American citizens at risk. Luckily, the virus could be contained and the death toll was relatively low. But it could have easily become a serious tragedy as it did in Israel, where the same virus caused 30 deaths throughout the summer. For such a threat to national security, the military is a decidedly unsuitable candidate to call for help...
...insists she "debunked" fears that geese spread illnesses, such as the West Nile virus. She called up a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and read studies about goose waste...
...devotee of museum wall-text and peripheral literature), I was taken aback to discover that Guston's coneheads are, in fact, Ku Klux Klan members, that the cycloptic heads (not shown in this exhibition) are representations of a bedridden Guston himself, that the fairy-tale sphinx of "Nile" (1977) is an ailing wife. Symbolic, after all. But, as Guston reminisces in the excellent film documentary of his career, A Life Lived (1980), on view at the back of A New Alphabet, his turn away from abstract expressionism in the 1970s toward a new sort of figuration was motivated precisely...