Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fatal Links?" [June 28] contains two irresponsible ideas that may cause unwarranted anxiety and the interruption of normal lives of thousands of people...
Equine Epidemic Few diseases are more fear-inspiring than encephalitis, a group of viral ailments that attack the brain and sometimes produce a fatal form of sleeping sickness. Thousands of horses died when an epidemic of Eastern equine encephalitis struck the Eastern U.S. in 1933; thousands more were affected when a similar disease hit the Central U.S. and Canada in 1941. Now, horses throughout the Southwest are threatened by yet another related virus. An epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) has been working its way northward from South America since 1969 and has now crossed the border into Texas...
...aching bones, nausea and vomiting. In the border town of Brownsville, Texas, three children have been diagnosed as having the disease. Elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley, 36 people with similar symptoms have been admitted to hospitals. Their chances of recovery, however, are excellent. Venezuelan equine encephalitis is rarely fatal to humans; most recover from it in a few days...
...combat the new onslaught, the pesticide industry offered up a chemical poison trademarked Sevin. It is not as toxic or long-lived as DDT, but just as surely kills the caterpillars. Nonetheless, environmentalists strongly oppose Sevin because it is fatal to fresh-water insects, fingerling fish and bees. Heeding the environmentalists' warnings, residents of most infested areas this year voted against aerial spraying of pesticides and settled back to let nature take its course...
Weak and in agony, Carmen Martinez, 72, pleaded for the right to a peaceful death. Hospitalized in Hialeah, Fla., for almost two months, she had a fatal form of hemolytic anemia, a blood disease. The treatment that was keeping her alive involved surgical incisions into her withered veins so that almost continual blood transfusions could be forced in. "Please don't torture me any more," she begged her doctor, Rolando Lopez. Many doctors routinely, if quietly, withhold life-preserving treatment when they determine that its only effect will be to prolong the agony of dying. But Dr. Lopez...