In turn, our fascination with images of infection from zombie fiction to news about "viral" cyber attacks—highlights a fear of contaminating "us" with "them". In this Writing Seminar, students explored contagion from a bio-cultural perspective and ask: How is the spread of epidemics influenced by beliefs about race, gender, and culture?
You guys just contaminated us.
Contaminated US gel has been identified in routine cultures, and several reports of outbreaks of infection related to US gel have been published [18, 32, 33, 34, 35].
They don't want to be contaminated by us?" said Representative Charles B. Rangel, a Democrat from Harlem.
As those who remembered the day gathered in the Marshall Islands' capital of Majuro, along with younger generations, to commemorate the anniversary, many exiles refused to go back to the zones that were contaminated despite US safety assurances.
US campaigners warn that fracking for oil or gas, which has transformed the country's energy market, is seriously depleting or contaminating vital US water supplies.
I enjoy telling my students: let us contaminate the two plays with one another.
"I guess they just don't want us to contaminate anyone," said Mr. Vázquez, interviewed by a reporter who was himself in the hospital to be tested for swine flu.
Here again, Bachmann is taking positions that could harm, even kill, the rest of us: contaminated food causes 3,000 deaths a year in the United States and leads to 48 million cases of illness.
On the other, the scale of the concern around fentanyl contaminating the entire US drug supply is a very familiar narrative in the War on Drugs: the belief that dealers are governed not by economics but by malice, that users are helpless addicts, and that drug eradication is the only solution to these problems.
The process is subtle; indeed, most of us are unaware of how our moods contaminate our objectivity.
