Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another resident, Patrick Hall, says he is concerned about possible a health hazard. In February, New York health officials traced the death of a Long Island college student to a virus known as hantavirus which is spread through mouse droppings...
...Larry Ludwick, the director of infectious diseases at Maimonides MedicalCenter in Brooklyn, said in an interview last weekthat mice can spread a variety of infections...
...hacked up mastodon tusk, 12,200 years old, showed evidence that humans had cut on its tusk -- in what is now Florida. That geographic location also plays havoc with the notion that humans first arrived in the western part of the continent; instead, they may have begun their spread from Florida and other places east...
...originally conceived by Blue Cross 60 years ago, community rating aimed to spread the risk of medical costs by charging a single premium, regardless of age, gender, income or medical condition. Over the past two decades, however, "experience rating" has become more popular. It enables insurance companies to "cream skim" low-risk groups and offer them modest premiums, then "cherry pick" the people within that group who pose high health risks and either raise their policy costs or deny them coverage. The result is so unfair that 40 states have restricted or prohibited the practice. "What you end up with...
...component of health-care reform that enjoys almost universal support, cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Much like anatomy, all the pieces connect: the aging and the sick are connected to the young, who need employers to ease their new burden, who need the cooperation of other employers to spread the costs. Otherwise, the healthiest and the wealthiest will forgo insurance -- and America's health-care system could get even sicker...