Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...block area east of the ruptured Industrial Canal. In the city and nearby lowlands, the death toll had reached 65 and was still climbing. No one could tell how many more bodies the muddy waters might yield. And, as medical teams inoculated citizens against typhoid and diphtheria, New Orleans sweated out the threat of epidemic...
...Salk perfected his anti-polio vaccine, the disease has been all but wiped out in the U.S. Reported cases of paralytic polio have dramatically declined, from 18,000 cases in 1954 to a mere 94 last year; the chance of getting polio today is less than the risk of diphtheria, malaria or typhoid fever. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the approval of the Salk vaccine for general use, congressional leaders presented Dr. Salk with a joint resolution of the Senate and House expressing the nation's gratitude. The U.S. Public Health Service's Surgeon General...
...Shawn, life changed forever in 1910. A pious, bookish student at the University of Denver, he was studying to be a Methodist minister when an attack of diphtheria left him paralyzed from the waist down. Ballet lessons were prescribed to aid his recovery. Private therapy was one thing. But dancing in public? When Shawn actually danced a waltzy pas de deux at an arts ball, faculty members were shocked and fraternity brothers sniggered. "Men," he was quietly informed, "don't dance." Shawn quit the university, and has viewed his art ever since as a logical "continuation of my sense...
Died. Gaston Ramon, 76, French microbiologist, who followed in Louis Pasteur's footsteps at the Pasteur Institute, in 1923 developed the first safe and effective diphtheria vaccine, later produced the first antitetanus vaccine; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Foiled so far in their efforts to find viruses that can be indicted as essential factors in human cancer, the researchers are looking for guidelines in viruses that parasitize lower forms of life. They have a suggestive clue in diphtheria bacilli. All the microbes of this species can cause infection in man. but only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic...