Word: pathogens
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Although the Council vote cannot stop the construction, members said they were concerned that the effects of a pathogen leak would go beyond Boston city limits...
...wrong. We agonize over avian flu, which to date has killed precisely no one in the U.S., but have to be cajoled into getting vaccinated for the common flu, which contributes to the deaths of 36,000 Americans each year. We wring our hands over the mad cow pathogen that might be (but almost certainly isn't) in our hamburger and worry far less about the cholesterol that contributes to the heart disease that kills 700,000 of us annually...
...Pathogen resistance The bee's genes do not give it a very powerful immune system, surprising in so communal a species. The bee has yet undiscovered ways of staying healthy...
...Persistent Pathogen Last month's spate of infections from E. coli bacteria traced to prepackaged spinach harvested in California was only the latest outbreak of exposure to the dangerous microbe. TIME's Aug. 3, 1998, cover story concerned an epidemic that spread when E. coli contaminated the water in Alpine, Wyoming...
...threatening condition. Normally, 50-75% of the human body is water. The small intestine serves as its key pumping station, absorbing water and nutrients through its walls. There, nutrient-rich fluids enter the bloodstream, which transports them to other parts of the body. But when the intestine detects a pathogen in its midst, it stops soaking up fluids and disgorges its contents in a watery rush of stools. The consequence is what we know as dehydration. Oral rehydration treatment can reverse dehydration in more than 90% of patients, even in cases of the severe diarrhea caused by bugs like rotavirus...