Word: tapeworm
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Inadequate sanitation often provides new pathways for infectious agents. In Mexico cysticercosis, caused by a tapeworm that invades the human brain, used to be transmitted primarily by improperly cooked pork. Now people are getting the disease from vegetables grown in fields irrigated by water containing effluent that flows into the Tula River from Mexico City. Brinkmann estimates that more than half of the 300 million urban poor in the developing world are in a permanently weakened condition because they carry one or more parasites...
...brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
...less than ill clothed, less than ill fed and without homes. We have had to start from scratch." In fact, some arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport carrying nothing but water pails, cherished possessions in drought-stricken Sudan and Ethiopia. Many suffer from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, jaundice, typhus and tapeworm. "I had to go back to my textbooks to look up some of these diseases," said an Israeli doctor...
Legally, at least, Reykjavik (pop. 84,500) is a doggone difficult place for lovers of canines, which have been barred for the past 60 years as part of an effort to control the tapeworm that plagued Icelanders for centuries. Enough time to give one pause. Actually, the city in recent years has been so undogmatic about enforcing the ban that it now has an estimated 3,000 dogs. The atmosphere is scarcely one to make a pup tense. Putting up whippet all, police almost never enforce the law (or collect the $200 fine) for harboring a bootleg mutt...
Preliminary medical examinations will probably be carried out aboard the C-9As en route to Wiesbaden. After arrival at the hospital, those who do not need immediate attention will be given complete physicals, undergoing tests for, as the hospital puts it, "everything from tapeworm to tuberculosis." Extensive psychological testing will also take place...