Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides these events to view with alarm, Messrs. Rockefeller, Fosdick and their fellow trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...Public Health Service last week was a report on the prevalence of communicable diseases. So far in 1938 there have been fewer cases than usual of influenza (off 87% from last year, 50% from 1935 and 1936), meningitis (off 30% from the five-year average), scarlet fever (off 10% from the five-year average), diphtheria (up from last year but below the average). Diseases of which there are epidemics...
...yellow fever sweeps out of the bayous and the people of New Orleans, among them Pres Dillard, begin to drop. When it comes time to remove Pres to the leper and fever colony on Lazarette Island, whence few return, Julie, strong in apparent regeneration, goes to nurse him, while his trustful Northern bride stays behind to pray for their return...
...make it easy for Chicagoans to get such serums the late Samuel Deutsch, Chicago steelman, established a Serum Center at Michael Reese Hospital, which now stocks serums against infantile paralysis and scarlet fever as well as measles. But in all the U. S. there are only six similar serum centres-Manhattan, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit...
...dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with smallpox...