Wu Youke ( 1582 1652 ) developed the concept that some diseases were caused by transmissible agents, which he called liqi ( pestilential factors ).
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The sight and smell of decaying corpses was offensive and regarded as " pestilential ", so it was seen as a threat to public health.
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In a mood of bipartisan urgency, Congress soon passed legislation that criminalized the threatened use of pestilential germs and imposed tough new rules on their transfer.
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Army ants, drought, hookworm, hunger, pestilential rain, diseases and still more diseases and green mamba snakes, yes, but no darkness.
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There came a demand for the acquirement of this spot by the city, for the purpose of draining and cleaning up this pestilential and poisonous cesspool.
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That did not deter the spokesmen for the distraught Fayed family, who continued to insist that the crash had been set in train by the pestilential press.
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However, how the phyolloxera had survived the journey remained a point of much debate; Europeans had experimented with American vines for centuries without any pestilential problems.
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"In the earth, " she said, pointing to the cellar, a dank and pestilential chamber of smelly mattresses lit by two smoking candles.
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The Cuban Posadist section became increasingly militant and was banned by the government, Castro denonunced them as " pestilential " at the Tricontinental Congress held in January 1966.
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In 1832 the dictionary article on cholera was published as a separate book, " Pestilential Cholera, its Nature, Prevention, and Curative Treatment ".
