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...scare, the tomatoes don't come with a traceable bar code. "When you're dealing with tomatoes, it is much, much more complex," explains Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. The FDA's great tomato hunt has an ever-expanding list of suspects. A salmonella victim can point to the supermarket (or restaurant) that sold the offending fruit, but that store probably sources its tomatoes from several suppliers, each of which uses several distributors - and distributors buy from any number of growers...
...Still, the lag time between the initial outbreak and the government's reaction is startling: the first Salmonella Saintpaul victim fell ill on April 16, but the FDA didn't announce the tomato link until June 3. Williams says part of the problem identifying salmonella outbreaks is that a lot of victims don't see the symptoms - diarrhea, fever, vomiting - as sufficiently severe to warrant a visit to the doctor, and so they go undiagnosed. "There may be a delay in reporting outbreaks because people do not have a stool specimen tested," he says. Officials have not yet identified...
...longer have a moral compass.' DARYL ROBERTS, police chief of Hartford, Conn., after security cameras captured dozens of witnesses driving past a 78-year-old hit-and-run victim without stopping to help...
...many, the face of AIDS is that of an emaciated victim on her deathbed. But more and more people with AIDS now lead healthy lives because of antiretroviral drugs (ARVS). Thanks in part to organizations like the Global Fund, 3 million patients in developing countries receive ARVS. In a project titled "Access to Life," eight photographers from the Magnum Photos agency have captured images of patients before and after receiving treatment, providing a rare glimpse at how lives around the world are being transformed. For more pictures, go to time.com/access...
...Mohammed is a victim of circumstance. His city of Mahalla is an industrial town, a poor, blue-collar city home to large factories that pay small salaries. Still, factory workers make more than most. Open rebellion carries a high cost in Egypt, and Mohammed saw it happen to his neighbors. Nevertheless, he ran towards the conflict, not away...