The quickest way to sicken a modernist is to bring him to a midcentury Los Angeles diner.

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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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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.

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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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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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When it comes to using bugs as treatment, one key, of course, is finding ones that won't sicken people.

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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.

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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.

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