Picnicking in a wood, a person may be bitten by a tick carrying the virus of one of several forms of encephalitis; as he swims in a canal or river, his skin may be penetrated by the organisms that cause leptospirosis.
An ever-widening, near-hairless gully that runs to the bald spot on the crown of my head, like a river of skin draining into the pool of self-loathing.
The analogue of the rivers "carving the skin of Papatūānuku" helped to explain river incision and the outcrops of horizontal tephra beds.
Material from swamps, ponds, or river regions may contaminate skin surfaces with M. ulcerans, which can result in introduction of the causative agent into skin when it is broken by trauma or insect bites (15, 19 ).
By the time we realign the raft and paddle onward into more Class 3 rapids I'm drenched, and slapped silly by the skin-stinging river water.
Yet as any reader of that earlier novel knows, he doesn't shrink from the graphic details of China as he sees it: people drink water thick with parasites, eat soy sauce made from fermented human hair, bathe in corrosive rivers and scrape the skin from potatoes with glass plucked from filthy water.
His 1964 book "Illustrated History of Ships and Boats" (Doubleday) traces water travel from the days when men floated across a river on an inflated animal skin to the days of steel-skinned nuclear submarines.
Moss walks out of the river, smoking, soaked to the skin, in a floorlength green sequin gown, Thames water dripping off those cheekbones.
Even the most casual Putin-watcher has marveled at his narcissism, manifested in his odd habit of inviting cameras to record him bare-chested on horseback, swimming the butterfly stroke in a Siberian river, scuba diving and collecting skin samples from whales, among other stunts.
A spokeswoman at Mercy Medical Center Lake Shasta said 25 people had been treated for minor symptoms by nightfall Monday, and added "they're still trickling in". A fisherman on the river, Glen Thesin of San Jose, suffered skin and eye irritation, and California Highway Patrol Officer Ed Kopping said a patrolman working in the area was overcome with nausea.
He had no direct skin contact with river water.
