Word: bacteriolo
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Died. Karl Friedrich Meyer, 89, Swiss-American virologist-bacteriolo-gist-epidemiologist; of cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
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