... Vulnerable reservoirs, truck bombs a la Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City, any one of the country's 86 nuclear power plants, smallpox dissemination, the 110- storey Sears Tower in Chicago? People talk about living a 'prepared' life style, being prepared for ...

... discovery was that when the bacillus was taken out of its natural environment it had a higher kill rate than anthrax or even smallpox. It was the delivery system, not virulence, that left the disease shambling behind its rivals as a biological weapon. It ...

... Yangtze, Leslie Spray travelled upriver to rescue a potentially embattled settlement of missionaries. En route he contracted smallpox. The disease took hold, and eventually his comrades feared the worst. The young soldier was deemed dead, and his corpse ...

... wouldn't be able to make it, Egan says. We had to ring round and say, 'listen, he can't make the trip, he's after catching smallpox'. We couldn't say he had fallen off the wagon it's really hard to present that to people, no matter how sympathetic they ...

... a dirty bomb of leftover radiological material slipped on to a commercial cargo ship, or suicide bioterrorists dosed with smallpox cooler . . . Black binders with labels like Bone/ Teeth/ Hair'' and Muscle/ Soft Tissue spill from shelves' bombers, while ...

... the doors or windows. Ridge's awkward stab at re- assurance comes too late as vague dangers of dirty bombs, anthrax and smallpox are filed to a sharp edge in the panic pockets of New York and Washington, freaked out cities convinced they are designated ...

... Pneumonia Asthma Purplish red spots, blood spots Smallpox, Ebola, Lassa fever, hantavirus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever Ulcers Corrosiveinjury/burns Collapae,shock Slowheartbeat Peripheral Wealmess,muscie wastage Twitching Central Apathy,disorientation ...

... A RESEARCH programme atTCDhasledtothe generation of aversion of Vaccina Virus —the virus used to vaccinate against smallpox which maybe safer than the currently used version of the vaccine. The existing version can cause serious side effects in one in ...

... not accompany his wife and their only child Vicky, then just a toddler, on the journey. The child was required to have a smallpox vaccine in South Africa, but developed a complication which was quickly diagnosed as a life-threatening strain of meningitis ...

... wrote plays, one of which, a translation of 'Corneille', was produced in Dublin with great success in 1663. When she died (of smallpox) at 32 she was much mourned. The merits of her brief but searing ly honest poem speak for themselves. 'Tis true, our life ...

... fuel and was forced to land in Egypt but the quickthinking Maguire ordered his would-be captors to send ambulances. I have smallpox on board, he lied. The Egyptians immediately obtained fuel and he proceeded safely to Tel Aviv. Maguire started his own ...