Word: bevendean
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent to a laundry, where they infected three more people. By this week the contagion had spread to 35 people ; nine had died...
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