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Trichinellae are usually transmitted to humans by infested pork, where they lie in wait coiled up in little cysts. When such pork is eaten (by a man or a hog) without thorough cooking, the cysts dissolve; the liberated worms mate and multiply in the intestines. The young worms wriggle into the lymphatic ducts, migrate to the muscles, and enclose themselves in cysts. One meal of improperly cooked infested pork is enough to start trichinosis...
...panto cat, goose, monkey, donkey or horse, which romps amidst the audience and is played, as a rule, by some little old man who has donned his moth-eaten pelts every Christmas for the past 40 years...
...hero is a moth-eaten Santa Claus who finds no takers for his gift of "understanding." The carnival figure of Death appears, as in a medieval morality play, gives him a skull mask and persuades him to be a salesman. In the guise of Science, Santa Claus successfully sells "knowledge" now, not understanding. Something awful happens to his customers, however. Santa Claus then has to face a defrauded, angry...
...penicillin is beyond the means of Haiti's treasury or the mission's appropriation. Last week, outside the mission's clinics, stinking, pitiful yaws victims still lined up each morning by the thousands. Some of them crawled miserably on their haunches, because their legs had been eaten away. Some had no faces left, only teeth protruding from lipless, roofless jaws...
...stockmen waged similar battles. Railroads moved all available stock cars into sidings at Hugo, Limon, Boyero, Wild Horse, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells and Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing dead...