Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writing with great flair, Preston introduces his readers to the terrors of the filovirus, a family of threadlike viruses found in the rain-forest regions of Central Africa. He describes a 1976 outbreak that spread through villages near the Ebola River in Zaire, killing as many as 90% of those infected. This so-called Ebola Zaire virus is the deadliest of the filoviruses, but its Ebola Sudan and Marburg kin, while not as deadly, cause equally horrible symptoms...
...some anti-Chavis board members said they had received threats. However, in spite of an hour-long speech in his own defense, Chavis was unable to reverse his fate; board members Hazel Dukes and Joe Madison drew up a resolution asking him to step down effective immediately. When rumors spread that Chavis was out, 20 of his young supporters attempted to rush the meeting and were prevented from entering only when N.A.A.C.P. staff members blocked the entrance. Several Chavis supporters declared they were going to quit the organization...
...Charisma magazine, an American pastor who saw Howard-Browne in action brought word to the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a Charismatic church near the Toronto International Airport. Similar outbursts began taking place there in January, at six-nights-a-week services that can last until 3 a.m. They have since spread to churches of several denominations across Canada as well as to England...
...tragedy that has engulfed Rwanda. It was the presidential guard, the army and its militia that took the lives of nearly half a million Tutsi civilians during three months of warfare. Last month, when they were defeated by the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Hutu soldiers spread rumors that the new government was killing Hutu civilians, igniting the panic that drove more than a million refugees across the border to Goma. Now, as an army in exile, these same men prolong the nightmare by discouraging their hungry, disease-ridden compatriots from returning home. Next, they defiantly vow to resume...
...School of Public Health professor this week said at the 10th International AIDS Conference that efforts to halt the spread of the disease through education and preventive measures have failed...