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A pet snake may have caused the death of a woman who died after receiving a tainted blood transfusion. Salmonella bacteria from the snake may have contaminated the blood given by the blood donor. Another woman became ill following a transfusion from the same donor, but she survived. Snakes carry salmonella bacteria (the same bacteria that infects poultry), but this is the first time a snake has been implicated in a death this way.
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Malaria-carrying mosquitoes have been found in Maryland, near the area where two teenagers became ill with the disease this past summer. “Having two cases of domestically transmitted malaria, and finding two pools of positive mosquitoes, hasn’t happened for decades in the U.S.,” says health authority David Goodfriend.
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As our military is getting ready to face an assault by chemical and biological weapons from Iraq, newly declassified Pentagon reports reveal that the United States secretly tested similar chemical and biological weapons on American soil during the 1960s. The tests included releasing deadly nerve agents in Alaska and spraying bacteria near Hawaii and San Diego. The military paid ranchers reparations after 6,400 sheep died when nerve gas drifted away from a test site in the Utah desert. The documents didn?t say whether any civilians were exposed to the poisons. We also tested nerve agents in Canada and Britain, with their cooperation. Chemical and biological agents were sprayed on ships at sea.
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Whitley’s exciting new novel “Lilith’s Dream” is now in bookstores everywhere! Publisher’s Weekly says, “Strieber remains a superb prose stylist, with a coherent and persuasive vision of vampirism…” This is the book that Whitley talked about on Coast to Coast on October 10, that contains one of the great hidden meanings of the close encounter experience. Explore it’s beautiful website, Lilithsdream.com where you can see some of the characters as brilliantly imagined by Dana Augustine, and listen to Whitley reading an excerpt. And check out Whitley’s tour schedule!
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