Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic, is Medical Enemy No. 1. How to protect U.S. soldiers from the rats, lice, mosquitoes, fleas and flies that carry malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, cholera is again a major problem...
...military medicine, said Dr. Mackie, began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands of victims of typhoid, cholera, dysentery. Bitterly opposed by hard-bitten generals, she pulled down the hospital death rate from diseases from 315 to 22 per 1,000. After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary rules, military hospitals. Said...
...Cholera, still widespread and deadly in India and China, can be prevented among the soldiers by vaccination. So can bubonic plague, carried by rat fleas, although protection is not complete...
...Athens and Peiraeus alone, between 1,700 and 2,000 men, women & children are dying each day. Not all starve to death. Cholera, typhus, typhoid and dysentery run like a licking brush fire through the weakened population. In mountain settlements and island villages people live a little better. They can find roots, herbs and mussels...
...Great Raft- "so solid in places that a man could ride across it on horseback. Except for the Raft, the Red River would be navigable for a thousand miles." But Henry Shreve and his snag boat, amid bitter wrangling, red tape, lack of money, deaths from boiler explosions and cholera, cleared the Great Raft and opened the Red River...