Word: infestation
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Swarms of sand fleas, mosquitoes and flies infest the area. There are also scorpions and several varieties of poisonous snakes, including a viper that is only eight inches long but extremely toxic. To avoid snake bite, Israeli soldiers in the Sinai have been ordered to wear boots rather than sandals, which in turn has led to a virtual epidemic of athlete's foot...
...reasons this has been such a good story is that, like Rothschild, the main characters in the publishing scandal are very earnest and personable people--florid and loquacious reminders that the academic specimens around here who wear ties and sit behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter...
...fire ants first arrived in Mobile, Ala., in 1918, hidden in a cargo from their native Brazil. Now they infest at least 133 million acres in nine Southern states from Texas to North Carolina and are slowly spreading northward. They live in open areas (farm land, pastures, even lawns) where they build 3-ft-high mounds that hinder mowers, plows and other machinery. They swarm over farm animals or people who stumble over the mounds, stinging them viciously. The ants' venom, which can cause coma in allergic individuals, produces the painful burning sensation that gives the ants their name...
...program to dramatize what he considers unnecessarily tough EPA restrictions on many different pesticides. At week's end officials of both federal bureaucracies were trying to work out a compromise. They are convinced that they can at least slow the march of the fire ants, which could eventually infest an area extending as far north as southern New Jersey and all the way west to Washington state...
...view of alarmists, the revolution may already have begun. Pet alligators have fled their habitats and begun to multiply in city sewers. South American piranhas have checked out of private aquariums to infest Southern waterways. Pet snakes of many deadly varieties escape and terrorize whole neighborhoods. Argentine monk parakeets are fleeing the cage and filching the fruit from Midwestern orchards. Land snails slither out of home aquariums to gnaw the stucco outside. A fugitive kangaroo has hopped 250 miles through Illinois and zapped several cops. In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots...