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What makes the situation so desperate, experts agree, is that new and more effective drugs are not, in themselves, enough. As Richard Colonno, vice president of drug discovery for infectious disease at Bristol-Myers Squibb, sees it, what new drugs do is reset a pathogen's biological clock. They buy time, but eventually resistance to these compounds will also arise...
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. One of the most terrifying infectious diseases known to man has once again mysteriously surfaced, this time in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. To date, this outbreak has seen 191 confirmed infections and 68 deaths from this terrible pathogen...
...could be possible to scan through the human immune system looking for holes and make the perfect pathogen," he said...
...TIME not as a CDC spokesman but as a private citizen, "I personally would not want to eat food grown with human waste." The problem, Cocalis says, is that Class-B sludge is "biologically active" when dumped. The EPA places a 30-day restriction on public access, but pathogens can survive much longer. And surrounding dumps with earth mounds won't keep out trespassers like Tony Behun, 11, who died after riding his bike through sludge in Osceola Mills, Pa. Nor will they keep toxic gases or wind-borne pathogens from reaching high-risk residents--infants, the elderly...