Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the lazy decades before the war in Viet Nam spread to Cambodia, now called Kampuchea, mornings in Phnom-Penh began when Buddhist bonzes filed slowly out from their wats (monasteries) in search of food. They proceeded along tree-lined boulevards, past colonial mansions and temples glistening with gold leaf, begging until their silver bowls were filled with rice and fresh mangoes. That usually did not take very long...
When an epidemic of exotic Newcastle disease struck California in the early '70s, 12 million egg-laying hens died, or were destroyed to prevent the spread of the disease. This time rare birds are being killed by the thousands in an attempt to protect the $9 billion poultry industry. Agriculture Department task forces have destroyed some 30,000 pet birds, from Maine to Hawaii, mostly by gassing them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide...
...program has worked: the virus apparently has not spread to the great chicken factories of the Southeast and of the Delmarva Peninsula, which ships birds overnight by truck to New York City and other Eastern markets. But poultrymen are not resting easy. Says Frank Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms Inc.: "All you can do is what you can." One step: voluntary quarantines for farmers whose families have visited pet shops...
Possibly a mutant strain of a mink virus or the cat virus feline panleukopenia, parvovirus is spread through the feces of infected canines. The virus can remain infectious for months, and can be tracked long distances on the soles of shoes or by other means. The disease does not affect humans, but sniffing dogs can pick up the virus by ingesting less than one-thousandth of a gram of fecal material. Five to ten days after exposure, the dogs may become listless, then vomit and develop bloody diarrhea; they also lose their appetite. If the animal becomes dehydrated...
...country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means of a straw stuck in its anus. In the end, one would need to be half a thug to be politically swayed...