Word: diphtheria
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...Diphtheria. 85. This summer souvenir hunters were making things tough for Archeologist Thomas Lee who has uncovered on Lake Huron's Canadian shore: 1. An ancient Greek-like temple...
When Metropolitan started its public-service ads, more than 15,000 people were dying in the U.S. each year from diphtheria. The company soon hammered home the idea that these deaths were unnecessary, thanks to the Schick test and the proof (in 1923) of the value of toxin-antitoxin. Metropolitan officials have had the satisfaction of seeing diphtheria become so rare that they do not need to campaign against it any more. So, too, with typhoid...
Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
...that reason, New York City's Department of Health last week suspended diphtheria and whooping-cough inoculations (except for infants under six months, who are virtually immune to polio) at its 76 child health stations.* The ban will run until...
Proof of this theory was again found in insects. At the non-growing stage when the cytochrome system is absent (the pupal stage), the insect was found to be wholly resistant to diphtheria toxin. But at other stages, when cytochrome is present, the toxin caused an immediate cessation of growth and ultimately caused death...