Word: feverently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...central Washington, a lawyer out for his first hunt with a brand-new Winchester went skulking up a ridge looking for deer. When he found one, instead of aiming and shooting, he got a classic case of buck fever. Dropping his gun, the lawyer ran after the deer, shouting, "Hey, stop! Stop...
This disease was first described by Japanese army doctors in 1939, when their troops came down with it in Manchuria (hence its popular name, "Manchurian fever"). The death rate then ran as high as 30%. No U.S. soldier is known to have contracted the disease in World War II or during the first year of war in Korea. Last June it broke out among forward troops who had been living on the ground...
Sometimes as many as ten men in a unit fell ill at once; sometimes only one man in a pup tent. The first symptoms are like grippe: headache, fever, aching joints and fatigue. The fever may shoot to 106°, the pulse weakens, and blood pressure falls as in shock. In the acute stage, tiny hemorrhages in the eyeballs make them bloodshot; other hemorrhages appear under the skin of shoulders and belly, and there may be bleeding from the nose, kidneys or intestines...
...disease. But U.S. troops get far better care than the first Japanese victims: infusions of glucose and vitamins, and sometimes ACTH or cortisone for shock. Transfusions of blood from convalescent patients, given to victims in the early stages, seem to speed their recovery. This strengthens the belief that the fever is caused by a virus, and that a convalescent's blood contains antibodies manufactured during the illness...
...responsible virus in the rabbits and vermin, and in the mites which infest them. After that, work can begin on developing a protective vaccine. Meanwhile, to front-line troops the season's first bitter cold was almost welcome: it appeared that nighttime freezes were checking the fever's spread...