Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-olds, and in the second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors begin polio shots for youngsters two to three months old along with vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough...
...DIPHTHERIA. Steadily on the decline since 1946, the disease struck 23% fewer victims last year than the year before. Of the 1,211 total, Michigan accounted for 100 in December alone...
...Twirling Dials, $40. The tariff was stiffer in Bryan, where Mrs. Keene complained of headache and stomachache. There, Naturopath Charles Moore told her she still had diphtheria toxins in her throat from a childhood attack, that she also had colitis; her spleen, pancreas and liver were not working right; she was anemic and her pulse was too slow. He sold her special foods for $9, and for the examination (done by twiddling the dials of a machine that looked like a short-wave radio) he charged...
...Enders named diphtheria, lockjaw, typhoid, and diabetes "as only some of the many diseases" that have been conquered with the aid of animal experimentation. He also cited the importance of monkeys in the research on polio virus...
...Eight infectious diseases reported to the Communicable Disease Center declined in 1956, while six became more frequent, the U.S. Public Health Service reported. Down were polio, with 15,400 cases (a 47% drop below 1955's total of 29,270), brucellosis, diphtheria, hepatitis, malaria, meningococcal infections, typhus and rabies in animals. There were increases in typhoid, anthrax, encephalitis, measles, rabies in man, and psittacosis (up 82%, from 278 cases to 508, almost entirely among parakeet lovers...