Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale School of Medicine researcher is recovering from a rare and potentially lethal disease called Sabia virus. Before 1990, the illness was unknown to medicine. Then a woman in the town of Sabia, Brazil, died from a mysterious virus that had evidently been circulating in local rodents for years before making an assault on humans. Brazilian doctors sent samples to Yale, and a month ago the scientist became infected when he accidentally broke a container holding the virus. Health officials point out that it is not easily passed between humans, but some 80 people who came into contact with...
...while some other arenaviruses have been known to doctors for at least two decades, Sabia was never seen before 1990. In that year, a female agricultural engineer checked into a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a high fever. Within days she was dead. Brazilian scientists tried to identify the infectious agent; one of their number fell ill and nearly died in the process. But they could determine only that it was a member of the arenavirus clan, so they sent a sample on to Yale for further identification...
...South America still contains one of the largest unbroken tracts of tropical forest left in the world. Fewer than 50,000 people live in a natural kingdom larger than California that encompasses nearly all of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana and is buffered by virgin rain forest in Brazil and Venezuela. Some parts of the woodland are so isolated from civilization that monkeys are more curious than fearful when they encounter humans...
...against five. The Brazilians were equally blessed. They played the second half with one fewer man and still had the Americans badly outnumbered. What would have happened if the Brazilians had played with only nine? Or eight? The score might have been worse. The magic continued last Saturday, as Brazil dazzled the Netherlands in the second half, winning...
...television ratings were a triumph, if you listened to the promoters. Brazil vs. America drew 32 million viewers on the Fourth of July, with parades and picnics as the game's principal competition. Not bad. That's as many people as tune in for the average American Football Conference match on a November Sunday. Look at it a different way, and the ratings were a disaster: the biggest game in U.S. soccer history drew only as many viewers as a yawner between the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots on a day when raking leaves is usually the alternative...