Word: diphtheria
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...pertussis has been largely subdued in developed nations by mass inoculations with a vaccine made from killed pertussis bacteria. Now doctors annually pump some 18 million doses of the vaccine into U.S. children--usually in the form of a D.P.T. shot, so called because it also provides protection against diphtheria and tetanus. Some 40 states require children to have D.P.T. inoculations before they are allowed to enter school...
...Massachusetts state regulation, signed by Governor Michael S. Dukakis on May 30, specifically requires that students entering institutes of higher education in the state show proof of immunity against measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases such as tetanus and diphtheria, said Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, Director of the University Health Services...
...important clue to the magnesium factor came from Kass's earlier research on diphtheria, which is also caused by a bacterial toxin. He recalled that when deprived of iron, the diphtheria microbe produces excessive amounts of toxin. "You comb your mind for something you can get a hold on," he says, and the diphtheria-iron connection "leaped right out." Through a trial-and- error process, Kass and his team found that magnesium played a parallel role with Staph. aureus...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
...stemmed further devastation by shutting down one of the city's water pumps. In the past few decades, his followers have significantly improved the quality of life. In much of the world they have virtually eliminated the threat of such onetime plagues as polio, smallpox, cholera and diphtheria...