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These conditions can be improved with modern technology. The Indian government has sent hundreds of tons of DDT to kill the fleas. Workers are clearing the piles of garbage. The hospitals order by e-mail millions of tablets of antibiotics. Under treatment, the 50% survival rate of the plague increases...
Sometimes environmental changes help microbes move from animals to humans. Lyme disease, a bacterial infection, was largely confined to deer and wild mice until people began converting farmland into wooded suburbs -- which provided equally good habitats for the animals and the bacteria-infested ticks they carry and also brought them...
The images are the worst in a decade. Hundreds of emaciated corpses line the sun-baked gravel roads. The bodies strewn in contorted positions attract only flies and other pests; workers in masks and gloves stack the dead as chunks of rotting chordwood in loose piles. Beyond the dead, upon...
Hall says he has removed piles and piles of mouse droppings from his apartment. One evening, he found mounds of mouse droppings in his oven and range top.
Rwandans packed into Kigali's hotels, huddling in the dark hallways without food or beds, hoping the few foreigners there would protect them. Their terror only increased as the foreigners slipped away. At a hilltop compound for the insane, a group of Belgian nuns and lay brothers abandoned 200 of...