Word: aftosa
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...through a box filled with caustic soda-saturated sawdust. Then the cars slushed through a cement tank of the solution. Far & wide over the area of battle* Army planes patrolled, spotting cattle for ground troops. Once found, the beasts were slaughtered and quickly buried. In the costly offensive against aftosa-foot-&-mouth disease-there could be no quarter...
...shown its real stuff in the way it met its crisis. Soon after infection was discovered last year, and after the U.S. had slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports, the Government went decisively to war (TIME, March 3). President Miguel Aleman named himself head of the Anti-Aftosa Committee. Army, Navy and Agriculture departments, working with U.S. Department of Agriculture experts (the U.S. appropriated $9,000,000 to help Mexico in the fight), quarantined infected areas. Then the slaughter began, widening out into new areas as infection spread...
Profit in Panic. "Sly Pedro Gonzalez has another angle. He has heard of smart men buying healthy steers (at panic sale) for 99 pesos, inoculating them with aftosa and selling them to Government agents for 250 pesos, a goodly profit, gracias a Dios. Less enterprising men have smuggled healthy cattle from aftosa-free areas into infected areas and then stood piously by while Nature did the rest...
...Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...