Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carried all the way across the Atlantic by storms that form off Africa, where the rust has been a problem for many years. Airborne spores have been found 2,000 feet above infected plants. Man himself is probably a carrier. A heavy outbreak in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1967 may have begun when African delegates to an international cocoa conference inadvertently imported spores on their clothing...