Word: bugging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This bug has gone from 0 to 60, not in five seconds but in about five years," says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "It spreads by contact, so if it gets into any community that's fairly close-knit, that's all it needs to be passed...
Which helps explain why infectious-disease specialists in the U.S. are so alarmed by the new killer bug. "We're out here waving our arms, trying to get everyone's attention," says Dr. Robert Daum, director of the University of Chicago's pediatric infectious-disease program, who was one of the first to call attention to the rapid spread of MRSA, back in 1998. "People talk about bird flu, but this is here...
...quarter touchdowns, and locked up the starting job in a 31-21 win.The next week, O’Hagan continued his excellent play, leading a last-minute touchdown drive to force overtime in an eventual 38-35 double-overtime win over Brown.But the Crimson was bitten by an injury bug that ravaged the receiving corps, losing senior Rodney Byrnes in the opener and senior Ryan Tyler and junior Corey Mazza in the season’s first few games.After a difficult loss to No. 15 Lehigh, Harvard hit the low point of its early season in a 27-13 loss...
...With so many family members in the movie business, did you ever get bitten by the acting bug...
...addition to white supremacists, the immigration debate seems to have reinvigorated members of the antigovernment militias of the 1990s. Those groups largely disbanded after the Oklahoma City bombing orchestrated by militia groupie Timothy McVeigh and, later, the failure of a Y2K bug to trigger the mass chaos some militia members expected. "We've seen people from Missouri and Kentucky militias involved in border-vigilante activity, especially with the gung-ho Arizona group Ranch Rescue that used face paint, military uniforms and weapons," says Mark Pitcavage, fact-finding director of the ADL. "It's a natural shift. Militias fell on hard...