Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fever, one of Noel Coward's first big sneezes, should be more than just a Gesundheit for Faye Emerson. Peter Pagan and Mitchell Erickson will also appear. Kennebunkport, Me., through July...
...transfer to the modern facilities of Gorgas Hospital. First to land were Wisconsin-born Dr. Ronald MacKenzie, 38, and Panamanian Technician Angel Muñoz, 42. At Gorgas, the fearful diagnosis made in the field was confirmed: both were victims of a newly discovered and deadly disease, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. By midweek, the C-130 with its doctor-nurse team had made another trip, carrying New Jersey-born Virologist Karl Johnson, 34. He also had the fever...
...Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis...
...disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old-but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever-by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The disease is almost unknown in the U.S.; the few scattered cases brought into the country each year by visitors and immigrants fail to spread, create no public problem...
...before a child gets a shot of the more potent live virus. In either case, side effects are slight and infrequent. The investigators gave the live virus vaccine to 296 children who had already had one dose of the killed virus, and only 15% of the subjects developed a fever; 3% got a mild rash. For those who had two doses of killed virus before getting live virus shots, reactions were reduced by half. Of 75 given three killed virus shots, only one ran a fever and one developed a rash after an injection of the live virus vaccine...