Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eleven African queen bees and swarms of half-African drones and workers escaped from a Sao Paulo laboratory in 1957, and Brazil has been pained about it ever since. Imported because of their high honey productivity, the African bees were not intended to be released until they had their foul tempers bred out of them. But by 1965 the bees had bred, spread and were obeying their instinct to attack large animals without provocation (TIME, Sept 24, 1965). By the latest count, ten people, hundreds of cattle and horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks...
Measures are being taken to stop the spreading bees, but there is considerable doubt whether they can be halted before they spread farther southward through Argentina and northward through Colombia, Central America Mexico and into the U.S. After the African bees became a menace, Brazil's worried Ministry of Agriculture ordered that all African bees be exterminated, the ruling was never enforced Moreover,it failed to provide for indemnification of beekeepers. Impressed by improved honey yields, the beekeepers did nothing, and the Africans overwhelmed the relatively peaceful Italian and German bees that previously had Brazil to themselves. Spreading...
...Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...
...from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably led to a criticism of South African politics. Dr. Salber recalled, "There just wasn't very much you could do about health without getting involved in politics. It was very difficult to do this kind of work and live with yourself at the same time. Even in the United States, medicine is very much bound up with politics...
...pathologists who saw Barnard's slides were divided in their judgments. However the reaction is graded, its cause is still debatable. Some authorities blame nature's immune mechanism; others, the heavy doses of radiation given to Washkansky in the hope of subduing the reaction. Although the South African doctors insist that Washkansky died of pneumonia, they admit that they may have overtreated him with both radiation and immunosuppressive drugs. They have been careful not to make such a mistake with Philip Blaiberg...