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...locusts were not enough of a problem for Ethiopian Leader Mengistu Haile Mariam, his country was also faced once again with mass famine. In Ethiopia's Wollo and Tigre provinces, crops had been scourged by a deadly fungus known as ergot. The fungus, called St. Anthony's fire in medieval days, creates an unholy dilemma. Anyone who eats the infected grain risks the danger of a circulatory disorder that eventually blocks blood flow and causes gangrene. The alternative is starvation. FAO experts believe that the famine is potentially as crippling as the one that Ethiopia suffered...
...Berri regards The First Time, like his earlier films The Two of Us and Marry Me, Marry Me, as a roguish memoir. The mighty engines of nostalgia come into play as male viewers in their 40s, harassed by their own teen-age children and the spores of mid-life fungus, look backward with Berri. It is a rueful pleasure to watch Claude and his randy school friends stumble rubber-kneed after anything in skirts. The viewer smiles to himself and thinks, "My God, yes, it really was that crazy...
...southern Brazil are replanting in soybeans, wheat and sugar cane. They fear that the current coffee shortage will lead other farmers to overplant, thereby producing a future surplus and a resulting collapse in the coffee market. There is also a threat of further devastation from coffee leaf rust, a fungus disease that was swept by the trade winds from West Africa to Brazil. About 400 acres of coffee trees in Nicaragua's Carazo province have already been razed in an attempt to stop the rust, and throughout Central America spraying stations have been set up, where cars, tires...
...There was no evidence of the usual infectious agents such as bacteria, fungus, or the common respiratory viruses," he added. Swartz also said that there have been no secondary outbreaks that would indicate the disease is infectious...
...years the most effective chemical treatment was DDT, but a near-total ban was placed on that insecticide in 1972. Since then scientists have considered other ways of combatting the disease, including breeding armies of tiny parasitic wasps that would attack the fungus-bearing beetles, and defending elms with sticky traps coated with beetle-attracting odors. The newest weapon is a fungicide called Lignasan BLP, manufactured by Du Pont and put in commercial use for the first time this summer in about 1,000 locations in the U.S., including New York's Central Park, the White House lawns...