Word: sanitaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint commission was formed in 1947, a few months after aftosa had spread from infected Brahman bulls, imported from Brazil, over 16 states of central and southern Mexico. At first the commission's chief weapon was the rifle sanitaria: cattle in the infected zones were mass-slaughtered...