Word: anthrax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of anthrax in a quarter-century, Oklahoma threw National Guard roadblocks around Craig and Ottawa counties to prevent shipments of livestock, began vaccination of more than 60,000 cattle. Veterinarians working 16-hour days each vaccinated 788 to 1,000 animals a day. At least 200 cattle were dead of the disease; so far, no cases have spread to humans...
...Center declined in 1956, while six became more frequent, the U.S. Public Health Service reported. Down were polio, with 15,400 cases (a 47% drop below 1955's total of 29,270), brucellosis, diphtheria, hepatitis, malaria, meningococcal infections, typhus and rabies in animals. There were increases in typhoid, anthrax, encephalitis, measles, rabies in man, and psittacosis (up 82%, from 278 cases to 508, almost entirely among parakeet lovers...
HEMINGWAY was ill with erysipelas, streptococcus, staphylococcus and anthrax infections in Cortina d'Ampezzo and in hospital in Padova. English spelling Padua. Received 13 million units of penicillin and 3,000,000 more later in Cortina...
...such visits, Williams often had to syringe the sinuses of his charges, inoculate them against anthrax, and doctor them generally. He once spent three weeks treating an elephant called Ma Kyaw ("Miss Smooth") for some tiger-claw gouges on her back. Two months later, Williams was having tea outside his tent when Ma Kyaw passed by. Hearing his voice, she turned around, came up to his camp table, sat down, and "leant right over towards me so as to show me her back." That afternoon at the inspection, Williams found out why: one of Ma Kyaw's wounds still...