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...also reflects the fact that West Nile has been moving inexorably westward since it arrived in the Northeast in 1999. Diseases tend to expand their range until something stops them, and because this one is transmitted mostly by mosquitoes, which live in every state, there's not much stopping it. (It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion, but on July 1, the Food and Drug Administration authorized two experimental tests now being used on the nation's blood supply...
...original visitors found when they entered the valley in December 1849 looking for a shortcut to California's gold. Bound in by mountains and running out of supplies, most of the would-be miners and their families hunkered down for the winter, while a two-man scouting party forged westward for help. Returning in late January, the scouts found that one man had died. The rest of the group survived by burning their wagons and slaughtering the oxen. The valley got its name, according to legend, when one woman looked back as the party was leaving and said, "Goodbye, Death...
...life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward from Java, across the Indian Ocean and through the Arabian Sea to Bombay...
...history shows something different. It begins with what was called, in our high school history classes “westward expansion”—a euphemism for the annihilation or expulsion of the Indian tribes inhabiting the continent—all in the name of ”progress” and “civilization.” It continues with the expansion of American power into the Caribbean at the turn of the century, then into the Philippines, and then repeated marine invasions of Central America and long military occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
...virus that was part human, part avian. Much luck, hard scientific labor and prompt containment measures prevented that outbreak from turning into a global catastrophe. Next time we might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...