Word: exanthem
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This year hog farmers finally took action. Reason: vesicular exanthem, a disease of hogs that, unlike trichinosis, is not transmissible to human beings. Reports the University of Michigan's Professor Arthur Dearth Moore in the A.M.A. Journal: "This virus disease spread in the country at wildfire rate . . . through the feeding of raw garbage. [It] not only hit the large herds of the garbage-feeders but, because of its infectiousness, quarantines were called for that [also] stopped the shipping of grain-fed swine out of many areas. That affected the farmer's pocketbook. Without hesitation, the farmers turned...
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