Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio message from Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...
...made daily trips on snowshoes between her base camp four miles away and the Indian camp, where she was finally permitted to administer antitoxin to the hypodermic-shy natives. As she won the Indians' confidence, she learned that a 60-year-old woman had first come down with diphtheria in October. After that the disease had spread from tepee to tepee; three victims had already died. With antitoxin and penicillin strapped to their bodies to keep the drugs from freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined 52 patients a day. For ten days, broth...