Each year, hospital-acquired infections sicken about 1.7 million and kill 99, 000 people in the United States.
The quickest way to sicken a modernist is to bring him to a midcentury Los Angeles diner.
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People with celiac disease improve dramatically with proper diet, and sicken dramatically when they stray even a little bit.
When it comes to using bugs as treatment, one key, of course, is finding ones that won't sicken people.
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Produce foods, a category that includes vegetables, fruits and nuts, sicken 4.4 million people a year, according to the report.
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Vaccines have saved millions of lives, and allowed parents to live without the fear that their children will sicken and die.
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But the virus doesn't appear to notably sicken infected birds, unlike H5N1, another avian-flu virus that is deadly in birds and occasionally infects people.
This makes sense: in those areas with a high level of radiation, living things would tend to die or sicken and fail to reproduce.
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They also contain toxic materials and are often disposed of in developing countries where they sicken local people and taint their water and environment.
As workers sicken, they produce less and claim more health benefits.
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When environmental activists claim air pollutants kill thousands of Americans each year and sicken still thousands more, their claims ring hollow when they oppose a cost-effective, environmentally friendly solution.
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Swine flu could sicken one in five people this fall, and Belshe said he worries that the number of serious health complications and deaths as a result of the H1N1 virus could soar.
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The product metabolizes into inactive compounds within hours of being ingested, she said, a feature crucial to its development for use in rice fields in Asia, where farmers needed something that wouldn't sicken other animals and children.
The big and most effective step -- outlawing cigarettes on the grounds that they undeniably, in the long run, sicken and kill the people who smoke them, and those around them -- is not going to happen.
They found that 48 percent of beverages obtained from soda fountains contained coliform bacteria, 11 percent contained E. coli (which are mostly harmless, but some can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness and pneumonia), and 17 percent had Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (which could sicken newborns or adults with weakened immune systems).
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