Word: cholera
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...Cholera, which he caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...long time coming, in China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
...Cross workers labor day & night killing plague-infested rats, purifying water supplies with chlorine, operating delousing stations. In 1938 Dr. Co shipped over a million doses of cholera vaccine to China, thus preventing an epidemic. Last year there was an outbreak of plague in Chekiang, and the bureau rushed vaccines and fumigants to kill germ-bearing rats...
...reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
Until the latter half of the 19th Century, fruits and vegetables were generally abhorred by U. S. citizens, especially raw. Since cholera raged most fiercely in the delta of the Ganges, and since the Hindus lived largely on fruits and vegetables, some doctors told their patients they could escape the disease by eating only meat and potatoes...