Word: cholerae
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...Indian government took extraordinary precautions to protect the pilgrims. All of them had to receive anti-cholera inoculations and, despite the objections of the sanyasis, the area around Gomateswara's hill was sprayed with DDT, killing multitudes of living things in the process. Amidst the pious shouts of pilgrims, a public-address system warned: "Beware of pickpockets...
...fourth day of treatment with aureomycin or terramycin. The drugs kill many of the bacteria normally found in the intestine, and give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs are promptly stopped. Effective drug against the staphylococcus bugs: erythromycin...
Preparing for his Korean trip in a manner painfully familiar to all ex-servicemen, General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week rolled up his sleeves for six "booster" shots-yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, typhus, typhoid and tetanus. Though this is a process which virtually guarantees the victim two sore arms and a fever, Ike showed no visible signs of discomfort as he bustled through a busy week of conferences, callers and ceremonies...
...Said Prague's official Communist organ, Rude Pravo: "The accused are creatures who long ago lost the right to be called men. When looking at them, one is reminded of the pictures from Korea of the spiders, bugs and rats carrying with them the plague, typhoid and cholera...
...insults over mishandling of P.W.s. To cloud the air further, Peking and Moscow burst out with ludicrous charges that the U.N. forces were busily dropping germ-infected insects, cotton wads and leaflets behind Communist lines. It was a typical Red attempt to explain away a reported outbreak of typhus, cholera and bubonic plague among their armies...