Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cycles in human diseases: pneumonia and influenza, three years; diphtheria, six or seven years. In Bombay the plague strikes at exact intervals of a year and four days...
...defeat, U.S. prisoners of war in Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases as malaria, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia and beriberi.* Knowing the poor condition of the men who fought on Bataan, the War Department has made no charge of maltreatment. But the Surgeon General's Office thinks the death rate high...
...well the Japs feed some prisoners is dubious. Of 13,724 U.S. soldiers in Jap camps, 600 are already known to be dead, chiefly from malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, dysentery and diphtheria...
Died. Dr. Alexandre Emile John Yersin, 79, Pasteur Institute bacteriologist, codiscoverer with Dr. Pierre Roux of diphtheria antitoxin; in Annan, French Indo-China. He was also codiscoverer of an antitoxin with which he fought the bubonic plague in China in the 'gos, in honor of him the Chinese raised temples...
...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...