Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week of sunny days, spectacle and drama. Teams from all over the world converged on Cambridge to play out their preliminary matches in an atmosphere curiously different from the "Olympic fever" that has struck Los Angeles...
...those Haitian pigs have virtually disappeared, and with them may go the peasant's way of life. Three years ago, when African swine fever broke out among local hogs, the Haitian government, with U.S. assistance, undertook a $22 million one-year campaign that eradicated the country's surviving population of 400,000 black swine. Reason: U.S. agricultural experts feared that the disease would spread and wreck the $10 billion U.S. pig business. Death squads wiped out the pigs of 800,000 Haitian families, paying $30 to $40 compensation for each animal killed. Wildlife biologists are now tracking down...
Last year 2,000 sentinel pigs were sent from the U.S. and Canada to 505 locations in Haiti to test for the presence of any remaining African swine fever. Less than 1% of them have died...
...essential as the pigs were to the peasant economy, their fate was sealed once the African swine fever was discovered. An acute, febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall...
Until quite recently, researchers had felt no particular urgency for immunization. The disease had long been regarded as a benign malady, and although it tends to hit adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates...