Word: aftosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne. But for Miss McCormick, it probably will serve as a steppingstone to higher things-such as a TV career and a million bucks...
...hours the President recounted the happy details of Mexico's new prosperity: production and employment up, aftosa finally defeated, agriculture thriving. Then he paused, cleared his throat and in a dramatic voice announced the day's special surprise: "Only today we have been informed that the [U.S.] Export-Import Bank has assigned $150 million for our credit ... to be applied to railway improvements, highways, agricultural works including irrigation, and the expansion of electric power and communications."* The news of the biggest single U.S. loan to a Latin American republic in five years, kept secret till that moment...
...joint commission was formed in 1947, a few months after aftosa had spread from infected Brahman bulls, imported from Brazil, over 16 states of central and southern Mexico. At first the commission's chief weapon was the rifle sanitaria: cattle in the infected zones were mass-slaughtered...
...cattle in the infected area destroyed, the new policy paid off. In 19 months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...next few months will tell whether the vaccination campaign has fully achieved its purpose. Quarantine, inspection and disinfection will continue. If in two years there is no further outbreak of aftosa, there is a good chance that the U.S. ban on importation of Mexican beef -which once totaled half a million head of livestock a year-will be lifted...