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...eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...Where leprosy is referred to as "Hansen's disease," named for Norway's Dr. G. Armauer Hansen, who isolated the leprosy bacillus...
...Recent manifestation: an effort to rename leprosy Hansen's disease, after the Norwegian who isolated the bacillus some 70 years...
...Subtilin, an extract of the bacillus sub-tilis (the hay bacillus found in every open field) will kill tubercle bacilli in test tubes. This announcement, by the University of California's Dr. Anthony J. Salle, may mean very little. Test-tube results are only a preliminary step and subtilin has a long way to go to prove itself; like many another potential "cure," it may be no good in the human body...
Grasshoppers and Cantaloupes. In a constant search for new microscopic workers, industrial, university and Government researchers have isolated over 200,000 varieties. Useful microbes may turn up anywhere-in the air, on the water, on forest leaf mold, in city garbage cans. A potent industrial bacillus was discovered in the intestines of a grasshopper. The best strain of the mold Penicillium notatum, which makes life-saving penicillin, was first noticed on a cantaloupe rind...