Word: rashness
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...envelopes: Trenton, N.J., in the same state where several hijackers lived before boarding their plane in Newark; and Palm Beach County, Fla., where Mohamed Atta learned to fly, investigated crop dusters and appeared one day at a pharmacy in search of something to soothe the bright red rash on his hands...
...triage: the disease detectives at the CDC were reportedly coaching other labs on how to assess the risks and decide which substances to test first. They also alerted health officials to watch for the signs of other diseases, like plague (fever, cough, chest pain), smallpox (flulike symptoms and rash) and botulism (drooping eyelids, difficulty swallowing, blurred vision). While there was "no evidence" of the threat of any such diseases, says acting deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases Julie Gerberding, "we do live in an era when those threats can become a reality...
...SYMPTOMS Shortly after exposure through a cut or other break in the skin, a small, itchy bump appears. In some cases, a rash may develop. In another few days, the lesion fills up with fluid and develops into a painless ulcer 1 to 3 cm in diameter. Not long afterward, the lesion turns black, a hallmark of skin anthrax, as tissue begins...
...once symptoms begin (30% of those infected will die). The vaccine is 100% effective, but only in protecting against the disease before exposure. Although studies show that inoculation can prevent infection if given up to four days after exposure, by the time the first symptoms appear--fever, headache and rash, which begin at least two weeks after exposure--it is too late...
...British upper class. The Ripper worked methodically and ruthlessly, taunting authorities with letters and sending half a kidney to Scotland Yard over the four-month period. Unlike the psychological profiling so common in today’s police forces, the Brits were entirely unprepared to deal with a rash of violence so brutal and monumentally evil. After the murder of Mary Kelly, the killings stopped, but no suspect was arrested, and his true identity to this day remains of some conjecture...