Word: cubana
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...until Mass General Bacteriologist Lawrence J. Kunz examined some of the children's stool specimens did he discover the alarming and unexpected reason: the relatively uncommon bacterium Salmonella cubana...
...accompanied by vomiting, acute cramps and fever; and it can be fatal to feeble youngsters and oldsters. In the Boston case, it fell to Pediatrician David J. Lang to find out whatdunit. From case records, Dr. Lang concluded that while some of the children had been infected with S. cubana when they entered the hospital, others had picked up the infection there. That made the job tougher. Dr. Lang found that the hospital-acquired cases had been bedded in four different buildings. No help there. He cross-examined the doctors and nurses of 20 of the children, checked out what...
...come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius coccus, whose fat contains the dye. And where had they come from? The Canary Islands and Peru. In both places the insects appeared to be infected with cubana...
Sure enough, Dr. Kunz was able to grow S. cubana from the dye capsules. Mass General notified state and federal health authorities and substituted a black carbon marker for carmine red as an intestinal tracer. Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. So far, so good. But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than...
After months of negotiations, the State Department thought that it had succeeded several weeks ago in arranging the exodus. The U.S. was to pay Cubana Airlines some $250,000 to fly the Americans and their 1,700 dependents to Mexico City, where the refugees could be transferred to U.S.-bound planes. The State Department even announced that one planeload was on its way. Not so, replied the Cuban government. The plane, it announced, had turned back because of "engine trouble...