Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global peasantry: polenta, lentils, kale, bulgur wheat. Meanwhile, the fat-filled, heart-dumb foods once favored by kings and courtiers have been sedimenting down the socioeconomic scale. And, oh, the joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream and guacamole! Not to mention flavors unheard of a generation ago -- honey mustard (what deranged home-ec dropout thought that one up?), ranch, jalapeno. Of course, there isn't much alternative if you live in a ghetto where the nearest supermarket...
...cells in the body has fooled some nearby blood vessels into reaching out and embracing it. Now the tiny mass can soak up all the nutrients it needs to become a solid tumor and a major, life-threatening menace. Not much can stop it from growing until its cells spread, or metastasize, throughout the body, traveling along those same blood vessels to far-distant points in the lungs, bones and brain...
...same book notes that foodborne spreading is rare. But Harvard, in completing its investigation of the epidemic, said the Norwalk virus spread via the salad bar in the Freshman Union...
Students who got the primary dose spread the virus...
Officials said their "best hypothesis" is that the Norwalk virus was spread via the salad bar in the Freshman Union. The overwhelming majority of the 225 students who reported illness had eaten in the Union during the 72 hours before the epidemic...