Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the monkeys die, the men will vomit black"-and die themselves, of yellow fever. Then came Gorgas and Goethals, and for 40 years the country seemed free of the scourge. Doctors believed that they had banished it entirely from the Americas; they scoffed at the Indian legend about the monkeys...
...time yellow jack was lurking in the jungles. The dread mosquito carriers spread yellow fever from animal to animal, and from animals to the few men who ventured deep into the forests. The doctors and engineers who cleaned up the cities and labor camps of Panama never suppressed the guerrillas in the jungle...
Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau had to admit that the experts still do not know how to stamp out jungle yellow fever, though they are learning more & more about it. It is the same disease that Gorgas fought: only the carrier mosquito is different. The only way to check it is by vaccination. Any farmer, woodcutter or orchid hunter going to town for a weekend with the virus in his blood may start an epidemic among people who have not been inoculated...
...headache, fever and nausea, and became delirious. The next day she went to the hospital, unconscious, with a severe case of meningitis-an inflammation of the inner covering of the brain and spinal cord. A dozen doctors joined in treating her, used many of the newest "miracle drugs," eventually pulled her through...
Before the twins joined the order, their names were Isabelle and Lucille Gay-the daughters of a Faribault, Minn, organist who had lost his own sight as a result of typhoid fever. Their father taught them Braille, sent them off to study the piano. The twins worked hard, and in time, were ready to play in public. Soon they became a familiar sight on Midwestern concert stages...