Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curative measures include government distribution of quinine, establishment of hospitals, and special steps for the cure of tuberculosis, typhus, syphilis, cholera, and other pestiferous infections...
...successfully combatted cattle anthrax and chicken cholera by vaccination...
...Ronald Ross, the authority on tropical disease, told the British Science Guild in London: " You throw your geniuses in the dust heap." He pointed out that the man who discovered methods of inoculation against cholera (Waldemar M. W. Haffkine) and the man who discovered the cure for sleeping sickness (Sir David Bruce) are neither of them now employed by Great Britain. Also, Walter Reed, the American who discovered that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, died without knowing how his wife and children would be provided...
...fever by bedbugs, and the bites of many other insects have been shown to be dangerous. Dr. Smith has also conducted exhaustive researches on tuberculosis, was the first to recognize that there were distinct differences between the bovine and human tubercle bacilli, and contributed to our knowledge of hog cholera, anaphylaxis, contagious abortion of cattle and streptococcic sore throat. He discovered several new parasites of the lower animals, one of them the micro-organism of blackhead in turkeys, a disease of large economic importance. This discovery will help reduce the cost of Thanksgiving dinners. He has devised many laboratory procedures...