Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that had been seen roaming the streets for months, biting people and other dogs, turned out to be rabid. At least six people in town had to undergo painful and potentially dangerous rabies vaccination. In late March, Murphysboro was placed under indefinite quarantine, which means dog owners must keep their pets leashed or penned...
Except for Hawaii, no state has been left untouched. But one of the worst outbreaks is now occurring in the rural counties of southern Illinois. So far this year, officials of Jackson County alone have encountered a dozen rabid animals-dogs, cats, skunks and a bat. Skunks are particularly dangerous carriers of the rabies virus; while dogs usually die within three weeks after infection, skunks survive for up to four months. Ordinarily shy, skunks have attacked dogs and cows, wandered into houses and even chased children in broad daylight...
...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
...most controversial event of the three-day visit was a 45-minute meeting with Emperor Hirohito, 79. Rabid right-wingers, distressed that Hirohito, a former Shinto god, would deign to meet with a Vicar of Christ, rode about town waving a sign proclaiming POPE IS A BEAST. Some of Japan's 700,000 Protestants protested the meeting as well. The Pope's visit, they felt, would en courage a resurgent movement to elevate Shintoism to status as a national religion. About 70 others, including left-wingers, four Japanese Catholic clergy men and some Buddhist priests, accused John Paul...
...owner underground because he is a Jew, is rehearsing a production of an insipid Norwegian melodrama entitled "The Disappearance." The play has to be inspidid to please the censors and a certain Daxiat, a collaborating theater critic who speaks the language of civility and art but whose reviews are rabid diatribes, poison pen letters under the guise of apolitical culture. As the troupe carries on rehearsals of the play, the pattern of occupation life emerges. The owner, who has ostensibly fled the country, is actually hiding in the basement of the theater, listening to the rehearsals through a hole...