Word: cholera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of more than 100). They raised four children in a swampy wasteland teeming with wild pigs, buffalo, cobras, scorpions, fleas, flies and ("most abundantly") leeches. Fever and dysentery were everyday matters-trifles compared with the cholera which, by slow degrees, killed their beautiful youngest child...
...this year's proposed budget of $6,250,000, the U.S. share would be 35%; other members would pay 65%. The U.S., which backed formation of WHO at San Francisco in 1945, has been supporting its interim commission in campaigns against the Egyptian cholera epidemic, malaria in Greece, tuberculosis (vaccinating 15,000,000 Europeans), medical neglect in China and Ethiopia...
...Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...test tubes, aerosporin proved many times more effective than streptomycin, weight for weight, against typhoid, dysentery, cholera, the plague, other intestinal infections. In mice, it worked against the whooping cough organism (which defies other antibiotics), typhoid, possibly against enteric fever...