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A custom that kills did not make any sense to me, and I knew I had to do something about it this time.
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
It's a small virus that kills bacteria.
For example, could we develop semisynthetic organisms that when injected into a person, seek out cancer cells and only when they find them, secrete a toxic protein that kills them?
It's an extreme form of dengue fever, a mosquito-born disease which also does not have an effective therapy or a vaccine, and kills 22,000 people each year.
We fear Ebola because of the fact that it kills us and we can't treat it.
He kills Hector, he mutilates his body and then he refuses to give the body back for burial to the family, which means that, in Greek ethos, Hector's soul will wander eternally, lost.
The only way to heal from this trauma, from this encounter with death that overwhelms, petrifies and kills you is to find a way to express it.
Silence kills us.
Remember, it's not the fall that kills her, but the sudden stop at the bottom.
The first is that social connections are really good for us, and that loneliness kills.
Gene drives have risks, and those need to be discussed, but malaria exists now and kills 1,000 people a day.
Today, I'm here to share the experience of what it's like to be the mother of someone who kills and hurts.
That seems so puzzling, but of course it's not, because war kills people by robbing them of their clinics, of their hospitals, of their supply chains.
But not only is it painful, it kills lots of babies, it kills lots of mothers, and it's very expensive to produce.
It infects some 10 million people a year, and it kills almost two million of them.
If they don't change their appearance, only one of eight kills, tortures or mutilates.
So even if you have a drug that's highly effective, that kills almost all the cells, there is a chance that there's a small population that's resistant to the drug.
He kills, I kill."
And dopamine is generated, which gives us a little high and it kills pain.
When an immune cell snuggles up against a cancer cell to take a taste, it's looking for signs of disease, and if it finds those signs, the cell gets activated and it launches a missile strike and kills the cell.
And then he backs away, he goes up to him again, almost kills him.
We still give patients chemotherapy, which is so non-specific that even though it kills the cancer cells, it kind of kills the rest of your body, too.
Trail is a therapeutic drug that kills cancer cells but not normal cells.
It kills seven million people every year, it costs five trillion dollars to the world economy and, worst, it robs us of our most precious gift, the years in our lives: six months of life expectancy in my hometown of Paris and up to three, four, five years in parts of India and China.
The only real difference is that aging kills considerably more people than malaria does.
They can't risk getting in a fight, so they lose one in nine kills to tougher predators like hyenas.
This is a strain that kills up to 60 percent of the people it infects, more than Ebola.
Well, it's not the lava that kills anything, it's the carbon dioxide that comes out with it.
But neoliberal economists would warn that all of these policies would be a terrible mistake, because raising taxes always kills economic growth, and any form of government regulation is inefficient, and raising wages always kills jobs.
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