Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Catholic Church is responsible for misinformation and ignorance concerning AIDS. I appreciate that these protesters tonight have taken the first step to real actions. I call on each of them...to alleviate the suffering of AIDS and prevent the further spread of AIDS," Watson said...
...blood sugar. Often they are so badly informed about their disease that they skrimp on the oral medication or insulin shots they need to keep blood glucose in the normal range. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a large health-promotion project, A Su Salud, has begun to spread the word about diabetes on Spanish-language radio and television...
...reason for the spread of salmonella, ironically, is Americans' determination to guard their health. In the quest to keep cholesterol levels down, people are turning more often to low-fat poultry: annual per capita consumption of chicken alone has risen from 40 lbs. in 1970 to more than 70 lbs. this year. Unfortunately, mass-production techniques make many poultry farms and plants prime breeding grounds for salmonella. Different strains of the bacteria can contaminate eggs as well as meat. (Raw cow's milk can also be tainted, but beef is less of a problem than poultry because the slaughtering process...
Chickens typically travel a filthy path from the farm through the slaughterhouse. Stuffed 10 or 12 to a cage on the truck to the processing plant, they eat one another's germ-laden excrement and spread it on their feathers and skin. At the plant, the birds move rapidly along a disassembly line where they are killed, dropped in scalding water, mechanically defeathered and eviscerated, and chilled in huge water tanks that usually become contaminated. "This is really no different than putting these birds in your toilet," contends Gerald Kuester, a microbiologist with the Public Citizen advocacy group...
...strike began in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, then spread throughout most of the country, shutting down public transportation for a week. The drivers were griping not about low wages but about a new law that imposed severe punishment for fatal accidents. Following an interpretation of Shariat, a code of Islamic laws, the guilty driver would be forced to pay a fine of $8,000 to the family of the deceased and serve up to 10 years in jail...