Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physicians, the fruit-growing San Joaquin Valley (part of California's great Central Valley) is less noted for its aliments than for its ailments. It was there that doctors found a strange disease of the lungs caused by fungus spores (coccidioidomycosis, or more simply, valley fever). There, too, they see each year a creeping plague, of Western equine encephalitis, commonly called sleeping sickness, an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus to which men and horses are especially vulnerable...
...valley has been hard hit this year, and though public health officials are shying away from the panic word epidemic they admit that the outbreak may prove to be California's worst. Day after day patients have been admitted to hospitals with splitting headaches, stiff necks and high fever, later to lapse into a coma which may last for weeks. Children and the elderly are especially affected; the virus does not so often strike adults in their prime. Unlike the Eastern and St. Louis virus, the Western form rarely causes permanent brain damage...
Even a single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal...
Playhouse on Broadway (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Melvyn Douglas in Petticoat Fever...
...scarcely got used to the altitude and the cold when three of them came down with severe pains and fever, perhaps from food poisoning. Nevertheless, successive camps were established at 15,200 ft., at 16,100 and, though the sick men were still wobbly, at 18,800. Finally, from a two-man camp at 20,600 ft., Dave