Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abortion and stillbirth commonly result from infections with the viruses of smallpox, ordinary measles (rubeola), polio, influenza and, less often, mumps. Measles works fast and is deadly to the fetus probably because of the high fever that accompanies the appearance of the red spots. Polio is not a deformer of the unborn, and usually is not deadly if the mother's infection comes late in pregnancy. But polio sometimes causes premature birth...
...describe a baby who was born with herpetic ulcers on his skin and kept getting them for months; he is now handicapped by cerebral palsy. By diligent virus detective work, the doctors concluded that the mother had picked up the infection from her husband, who had a herpes simplex fever blister on his lip when he kissed her ten days before the baby was born. The virus must have reached the baby through the mother's bloodstream and the placenta...
...eclipse. Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
...York Hospital. There, change from old emergency-room procedures begins at the entrance. To keep patients with open wounds waiting on stretchers away from others with infections, there are now two emergency-room doors-one for routine cases and most adults, one for children (who have most of the fevers). Inside are separate waiting rooms. A child with a broken leg but no fever can be quickly sent to the proper room...
...injured. At least 1,000 Chicagoans were left homeless. And for their sensational treatment of the affair, Chicago's editors earned a large share of the blame for unduly inflaming their town. In 1951, another brace of riots in bordering Cicero again raised head lines to fever pitch, and with the same result: public censure for the papers...