Word: humaneness
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...quarter of deaths have come from medical personnel infected by their patients. In the laboratory, Ebola has been shown to be transmittable in aerosol form (i.e. through the air, just as a cold or a flu can be transmitted in a sneeze or a cough) but no human infection has been confirmed to have occurred through air-borne particles...
Because the virus is not stable in the human population (it cannot co-exist with humans because it ends up killing them so quickly), researchers postulate that the virus resides in a host species normally, and the virus sporadically jumps into humans causing outbreaks in the general population. But this source organism has not been found. Although the virus has been exposed to a host of possible host organisms, only very superficial evidence for a possible carrier has been unearthed. Today the environmental source of Ebola is as mysterious as it was in 1976 when the first cases were reported...
...membranous tissues that separate different parts of the body from others. As these cells become infected and release their viral loads, the patients' organs effectively liquefy. Membranes that separate the patient from the outside world also breakdown, releasing this internal viral slurry. In effect, the patient becomes a human virus bomb...
While Bloom's extensive scholarship on Shakepeare's plays, including his recent best-selling book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, attests to the fact that he is one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars in the country, he was not above having some fun with the text--often at his own expense...
...Most Eligible Bachelor (Third World) nomination b) The Gaddafi Human Rights Prize c) The Fidel Castro Prize...