Word: anthrax
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...only for its infuriating bite. Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis...
...used in an evening dress for Emperor Napoleon Ill's wife, Empress Eugenie. Soon researchers, using Hoechst dyes, learned that they could stain living and dead tissue to study the origin and spread of diseases. Famed Microbiologist Robert Koch used Hoechst dyes to discover the organisms causing anthrax and tuberculosis. Over the years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain, the first effective local anesthetic, produced Adrenalin, the first synthetic hormone, and opened the way for the company's huge expansion into plastics by discovering how to produce polyvinyl. In 1925 Hoechst joined the other giant German chemical companies...
...only hope that Hippocrates knew that goatskins were quite susceptible to anthrax...
...first thought, and at second thought too, a festival of TV commercials is as appealing as a festival of anthrax germs. Yet last week a ballroom full of people gathered for such a rite at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt and sat voluntarily through 100 commercials in a row. They shouted "great" and "terrific" because a pitch for Ban deodorant used a documentary technique and private-eye oboes to amplify uneasiness about "being close." They rhapsodized in terms that John Ruskin might have used to describe Venice at the sight of margarine oozing down a stack of pancakes...
...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...