Word: fever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disease strikes abruptly but insidiously, and many treat it as if it were flu. After three days of fever, headache and vomiting, victims often deteriorate rapidly, with skin hemorrhages, nosebleeds, bloody vomiting, clammy hands and feet and abdominal pain. The febrile, blood-depleted patient may enter shock, which proves fatal for half of those...
What began in North Viet Nam as the Year of the Cock has become the Year of the Mosquito. Aëdes aegypti, a versatile vector best known as the primary carrier of yellow fever, has brought a crippling epidemic of hemorrhaging dengue-like fever to the Hanoi area...
...past month, the fever has killed considerably more than 1,000 North Vietnamese, nearly 90% of them between the ages of two and 15. From expressions of concern by the government radio and press, Hanoi watchers infer that the disease has already cut into the North's industrial productivity...
...Army, at its Fort Detrick in Fredeick, Maryland, is every day refining diseases that no one will be able to stop. At the Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Arsenal they've stored up enough anthrax, tularemia. Q fever, and psittacosis to kill everyone in the world several times over, a Congressman told a reporter of this paper. And at the Dugway Proving Grounds, a million acre base in Utah, where they test this stuff, they have a "permanently contaminated area." If a bird ever flew in and out of there, he could share it with the rest...
...American racial revolt of the 1960s has in no sense been a full-scale upheaval like the French Revolution. Yet it can be said that in the relatively cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next...