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...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...
...typhus, yellow fever (the five diseases defined as "quarantinable" by international agreement). Those with other communicable diseases are passed on to local health authorities to deal with. On all ships the P.H.S. looks for evidence of rats,* which might carry plague. They check imported shaving brushes for signs of anthrax...
Pulmonary anthrax, almost invariably fatal to man, might be effective-but it can get a foothold only on mucous membranes already raw with irritation. Rosebury & Kabat have a suggestion: mix up the anthrax spores with mustard...