Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proclaiming May 1 Child Health Day, Franklin Roosevelt told all communities to see that "children over nine months of age be immunized against diphtheria and smallpox, the two diseases for which we have the surest means of prevention." Reasons for mass immunization: 1) last year 16,000 non-immunized U.S. moppets and adults came down with diphtheria, 1,300 non-vaccinated citizens with smallpox; 2) serious epidemics may flare up in crowded defense areas...
...Frederick Arthur Willius and Librarian Thomas Edward Keys of the clinic's staff have been delving into the medical history of George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...
...Many maladies which occur as epidemics in the U.S. are endemic (permanent) in North China. Scarlet fever smolders constantly. Also common: typhoid, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, mumps, encephalitis, amebiasis (infection of the intestines by amebae...
...double-action vaccine that protects children against diphtheria and whooping cough at the same time was described at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Public Health Association last week. The vaccine, a combination of standard diphtheria toxoid and a new preparation containing the germs of whooping cough, was developed by Dr. Pearl Luella Kendrick of the Michigan State Department of Health...
...Kendrick and a group of Illinois health officials have tried the vac cine on several groups of children, whose ages ranged from six months to five years. None of them had vaccine sickness from combined doses. The diphtheria toxoid, of course, protected the children completely; the newer pertussis vaccine reduced the usual number of cases of whooping cough, moderated the disease in children who were attacked...