With Israelis hit by a sickening 100 suicide bombers in three years, who could blame them for feeling this way?
Freak food safety accident: A gas line used to pump CO2 into McDonald's soda fountain in Georgia leaked, sickening 10 people, one of whom died.
Second, Malaria has long been one of the world's greatest scourges, not only killing vast numbers but also sickening 100 times as many.
This 18-year veteran scientist of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., is accused of killing five people and sickening 17 others in the fall of 2001.
Those regulatory gaps burst into public view last fall when the New England Compounding Center, a compounding pharmacy outside Boston, shipped tainted steroid medication around the country, sickening 751 people, according to the C.D.C.
The occasional failures of public systems to operate properly are few and attract national attention, like the sanitation breakdown in Milwaukee in 1993 that precipitated an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, sickening 400,000 people and causing 100 deaths.
The industrial chemical melamine has been found in a growing range of Chinese-made dairy products, and it has been blamed for sickening 54,000 infants in China and killing four.
The official, James T. Caruso, deputy assistant director of the F.B.I.'s counterterrorism division, told senators that the agency was "pressing hard" to answer that question and many others, including how many people had access to the strain of anthrax that has been sent through the mail, killing 4 Americans and sickening 14.
He had never heard of a pathogen called the West Nile virus, which made its strange maiden voyage to the Western Hemisphere last summer, killing seven people around New York, severely sickening 55 others and becoming the first mosquito-borne viral outbreak in the city since yellow fever.
H5N1 has been raging in Asian poultry flocks for the past 2 years, sickening 140 people and killing more than 70 (ScienceNOW, 13 October 2005).
The latest unemployment figures stretch from the official 9.5% to the Labor Department's U-6 figure of 16.5% to a sickening 22%, according to TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence.
