Word: swine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed are often worded ambiguously. Members, meanwhile, find themselves devoting much of their time to constituents' requests, no matter how outlandish. A hog-farm operator, for example, kept after his representative for months to find him a hotel that would deliver him its leftover food, gratis, for his swine. The politician finally delivered and thus earned the unshakable support of the breeder...
...more than two weeks reporting the activities of the Government's CDC for this week's cover stories, the agency is responsible for Americans' receiving the best protection in the world against such sudden and unexpected killers as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease and swine flu. Boyce, who talked with CDC administrators, epidemic intelligence-service officers and public health officers, was doubly impressed by the agency's operations. Says he: "As a onetime premedical student who took courses in comparative anatomy, embryology and histology, I was fascinated by the scientific methods of tracing disease...
...first CDC experts suspected an attack of swine flu, which health officials had been fearing that year. But the evidence did not support that hypothesis. Some who had merely walked past the hotel contracted the disease. Yet it was noncontagious: no one caught it from the original 182 victims, 29 of whom died. Nor were any bacteria found. "The picture slowly evolved that we didn't know what we were dealing with," Tsai remembers...
...blemishes on the CDC's record involves an epidemic that never happened. In 1976, swine flu broke out at Fort Dix, N.J., killing one soldier. Health officials worried about the similarity of the virus to one that had caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 500,000 Americans. At President Gerald Ford's urging, a $100 million program was rushed into being to immunize people across the country. Not only did no epidemic break out, but 100 or so people came down with a syndrome, apparently connected to the vaccines, that caused partial paralysis. Ninety million unused...
...Sanders' 26-year-old son, refused to eat pork or drink water. Sanders had decorated the back of the house on Shannon with pink half moons and big yellow stars. On a tree in the yard hung a sign: WANTED FOR MURDER. MR. HOG. KNOWN ALIASES: PORK, SWINE...