Word: blood
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...Blood, sweat and tears made the hurting Crimson the victor of the quad-match...
Hepatitis C afflicts an estimated 150,000 Americans each year. The virus, like type B, is spread primarily by sexual activity and through tainted blood in transfusions or on addicts' dirty needles. (Hepatitis A is passed along mainly through contaminated foods.) Researchers at Chiron Corp., a biotechnology firm in Emeryville, Calif., that first identified the C virus, have devised a test for the pathogen that can be used to screen the blood supply...
...cirrhosis, and a small number may get cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
...accounts, is his organization. With many Palestinians who once saw their future through the barrel of a gun now seeking a seat at the peace table, a senior P.L.O. official claims that the terrorist network is disintegrating. And it is doing so in a shower of blood. P.L.O. officials recount how three of Abu Nidal's top lieutenants were shot at his house near Tripoli late last year and their bodies buried under tons of concrete. In all, says the P.L.O., 25 associates have been murdered at the house, and other F.R.C. members suspected of disloyalty have been executed...
Because of a reporting error, an article in yesterday's Crimson mistakenly said that only 120 people donated blood in the first day of the Red Cross Blood Drive, far below organizers' goal of 205 donors per day. Monday's drive actually attracted 195 people...