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Handy Package. Much more suitable for warfare,, the bacteriologists think, are the bacteria of various relatively obscure diseases: botulism, Weil's disease, anthrax, pneumonic plague. Botulinus toxin, for example, is by far the most potent of gastrointestinal poisons: it kills, within a few days, 60 to 70% of the people it infects. Rosebury & Kabat think that by aerial dissemination to enemy water supplies, whole populations could be infected before protective measures could be taken...
...Anthrax. Primarily a disease of cattle and sheep, anthrax also attacks man, producing an infectious, often fatal, skin ailment. The only known protection: immunization by vaccine. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, four Army & Navy researchers announced that penicillin had cured 25 cases of anthrax in human beings...
...Penicillin is effective in staphylococcus infections (e.g., carbuncles, blood-poisoning), gonorrhea, syphilis, yaws, anthrax, some forms of gas gangrene, certain heart infections. But doctors warn that penicillin may cause a temporary rise in venereal disease since: 1) treatment looks so easy that prevention is relaxed; 2) quick penicillin treatment for gonorrhea may mask early symptoms of syphilis, so that a man may discover he has syphilis only after irreparable damage has been done. (Treatment for syphilis requires at least 20 times as much penicillin as for gonorrhea...
...Indian Army husbands its elephants' health, as each is worth more than 5,000 rupees. Elephants are regularly given inoculation against anthrax. An elephant hypodermic is only slightly larger than the one familiar to troops, but because elephants dislike shiny steel, the veterinary must attack from the rear, with the syringe held out of sight...
...Anthrax bacilli are seen to be joined at the ends by curious disklike couplings. Strings of streptococci are held together by outer membranes which look like sausage casings...