The flaunting of ever more shocking cruelties suggested a spreading sickness, a slide towards barbarism that bodes ill for the region's future.
A chronic lack of access to clean water and sanitation make Haitians vulnerable to spreading sickness, especially as spring rains bring floods, as they always do.
Annually, influenza A viruses circulate the world causing wide-spread sickness, economic loss, and death.
Diffusion "kills microorganisms in the air which helps stop the spread of sickness," the pamphlet read.
Relief officials and residents here said the combination of poor diet, foul weather and unsanitary conditions has accelerated the spread of sickness just as winter has arrived.
Pieces of these subprime mortgages had been bought and sold across the world, so when Americans found themselves unable to pay, they spread a sickness across global finance.
Although this simple measure limits the spread of sickness — and could potentially reduce the nation's hospital health care bill by billions of dollars — many doctors and nurses simply ignore it.
The loss of food supplies was an important factor in the spread of sickness among the troops; Rommel himself fell ill, and in September he was sent back to Europe to recover.
She asked that her full name not be used because she feared discrimination in the future because of the nuclear crisis, just as survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings were ostracized out of a misplaced fear that they could spread radiation sickness.
For the first time, they have observed ant colonies removing infected larvae to prevent the spread of sickness, a behavior analogous to white blood cells ridding the body of dangerous pathogens and previously seen only in bees.
