Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
That is cancer: war between the body and its rebel cells. But it is not a two, sided civil war, because the body has almost no defenses. The body creates no antibodies against cancer as it does against diphtheria or typhoid. It builds no tissue walls to confine the destructive cells. It feeds them well, allows them to grow unchecked, and dies helplessly when they disrupt some vital function...
...More than the total deaths from typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and intestinal infections...
...long ago the P.H.S. moved in from the coast. Today, if a community has a standard milk ordinance, the standard was set by P.H.S.; all vaccines used to immunize children against such diseases as smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough are certified by the P.H.S.; drinking water on trains, ships, planes is certified by the P.H.S.; oysters, clams and other shellfish shipped in interstate commerce must be grown in P.H.S.-certified beds...
...instance, some time ago a number of you noticed an interesting discrepancy in one issue. On page 31 we ran an advertisement of a pharmaceutical manufacturer calling attention-in small type-to "a diphtheria increase of more than 18 percent during the past year." On page 56 our Medicine department had a story which said that there had been "an approximate 30% rise in cases (of diphtheria) last year." TIME got its figures from the United States Public Health Service; the ad's figure erred only in being very conservative. But the fact remained that readers had to read...