Word: cholerae
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...most bourgeois Court, barring Victoria's, of a bourgeois century, did not make Eugenie a happy woman. So, like many another disenchanted housewife, Eugenie went in for good works with her sleeves up. She was a tremendously energetic, genuinely intrepid woman, and her conduct during a cholera epidemic endeared her to the public. And at a time when Frenchwomen were 80% illiterate, she did work of permanent value for the education...
...malaria killed 1,500,000 Indians; cholera killed nearly 100,000 (a death rate of 29.3 per 100,000 compared with a Philippine rate of zero to .01); smallpox killed about 50,000 (a rate of 16.2 per 100,000 compared with zero for The Netherlands Indies and the Philippines). Tuberculosis is spreading...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...Hello, Yingva, how's the wheat crop? Has the cholera bothered your pigs this year? What do you think of the new amendment to the price-control law? Are you having trouble getting help...
...tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University of California has now discovered four species of California seaweed rich in agar...