Word: virus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defensive ends, the Crimson will go with sophmore Mitch Berger (a high school All-American) and veteran Mike McHugh. Junior Phil Robinson is just coming back from a virus which kept him out during preseason and he should figure into the starting picture soon...
...defensive ends, the Crimson will go with sophomore Mitch Berger (a high school All-American) and veteran Mike McHugh. Junior Phil Robinson is just coming back from a virus which kept him out during preseason and he should figure into the starting picture soon...
Public health officials have concentrated their efforts on immunizing schoolchildren, who often transmit the rubella virus to pregnant women. Now the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is urging local authorities to turn their attention to the women themselves...
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. a mosquito-borne virus that originated in South America, swept up into Texas, and parts of Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, killing at least 1,500 horses, burros and mules and afflicting hundreds of humans with severe, flu-like symptoms. Ranchers call the disease "blind staggers," describing the head-down, stumbling gait of a stricken animal. A plague of gypsy moths defoliated numerous forests in the East (TIME, July 26). For the second consecutive year, the Southern corn-leaf blight was rotting crops in all of the Midwest's corn-producing states...
...Backlash. To save their trees, some people tried using a biocide called Bacillus thuringiensis, which infects the caterpillars with a lethal virus. Smelling like musty hay, "BT" unfortunately may cause difficulties for people with allergies. Other tree owners turned to home remedies. They swatted the bugs with shovels, burned them with blow torches. Mrs. Marie Rusicka of Marlboro, N.J., actually spent three hours every day hand-picking the bugs off her trees. To keep caterpillars on the ground from climbing to the greenery, some citizens wrapped tree trunks with greased burlap bandages, then every evening stamped out the squishy bugs...