Word: anthrax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the substance of a warning issued by Assistant Surgeon General Clifford Ellison Waller and his public health colleagues to all U. S. shavers last week. Reason: a case of deadly anthrax in North Dakota last fortnight was traced to a lot of infected Japanese shaving brushes...
Rare in the U. S.. but widespread in Europe and Asia, anthrax is highly fatal, infectious disease conveyed to man by Bacillus anthracis, which infects sheep and cattle. Germs usually enter the body through infected meat, hair, and hides, produce abscesses, swellings, even gangrene and peritonitis...
...1870s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch showed that microscopic germs cause diseases like anthrax, rabies, tuberculosis. Sixty years later and with vastly improved microscopes, bacteriologists are unable to see any germ positively responsible for smallpox, measles, infantile paralysis, the common cold. That invisible, specific contagia cause these diseases and many an-other is certain. Medical scientists call those submicroscopic substances viruses. But they do not know their true nature, and hence cannot scientifically prevent common colds or infantile paralysis...
...Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...