Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notorious flare-up in Gloucestershire, England, of what the press dubbed flesh-eating bacteria alerted people to the dangers of streptococcus-A infections. The common bacteria that cause strep throat generally produce no lasting harm if properly treated, but certain virulent strains can turn lethal. Strep-A infections claim thousands of lives each year in the U.S. and Europe alone...
...Newspaper accounts publicized a startling flare-up of tuberculosis that was first detected last year at a high school in Westminster, California, a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles. The disease was apparently brought in by a 16-year-old Vietnamese immigrant who contracted it in her native country. Nearly 400 young people, or 30% of the school's students, have tested positive for the infection, and at least 12 have a variety of the TB bacterium that is resistant to standard antibiotic treatment. One student has lost part of her lung...
...most part, the month-long cease-fire agreed to on June 15 by Bosnia's warring parties held. Among several flare-ups along the front: the area around Bihac, where Bosnian government forces fought a group of Muslim rebels who have declared an independent fiefdom. Meanwhile, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman visited Sarajevo to discuss a newly formed Bosnian federation of Muslims and Croats...
...these pernicious cases, Clinton has opted for a holding action. Over the next month or two, the crises will flare up again, perhaps in more virulent form. By then the new sanctions on Haiti may have proved just as ineffectual as the old ones. Despite a promised four-week cease-fire, the Bosnian government and the Serbs may refuse to settle for their allotted percentages...
...others, we spot our quarry: 13 Cubans standing up in two makeshift rafts, waving, yelling, laughing, crying as we circle overhead. The Cessna swoops down to a mere 50 ft. above the waves. Domaniewicz shouts over the engines, telling me to open the cabin window and drop a flare; the orange smoke will guide the U.S. Coast Guard to the rafters' position. The scene is a blur as we fly by; only later will we learn that a shark had been circling one of the rafts...