Word: fungus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer's losses are nothing to what might happen next summer. Rust is a quick-growing fungus that spreads by microscopic spores carried on the wind. "The spores," says Agriculture, "migrate like wild birds." North winds blow them south in fall, where they spend the mild winter on wheat in Texas and Mexico. When the weather gets warmer, they are blown back to the wheat belt by southerly winds...
...Roche, Inc., of Nutley, N.J., which followed up the TIME story by sending Dr. Ruth Wolfe to hold rallies in which she taught mothers to use an experimental drug called R02-2453. Hoffmann-La Roche flew in 200 cases of this new medicine to help stop the spreading fungus...
...hour, every day, hundreds of itchy victims trooped into the nine treatment centers set up by the city's brisk, go-getting health officer, Dr. Joseph Gimby. Each child's head was examined under a special ultraviolet lamp which makes infected areas show up fluorescent. Where the fungus* had a foothold, the patches were marked and, down the line, were clipped. Many boys and a few girls were completely shaved...
Loud Screams. The scalp was scrubbed, and then began the most painful part of the treatment: under the revealing lamp, infected hairs were pulled out with tweezers. In spite of loud screams echoing down the halls, this Spartan procedure was necessary because the fungus penetrates the follicle clear down to the hair root. After a hot salt compress to open up the pores, the children had a detergent solution (Bacticide) rubbed into their scalps...
...Misnamed more than 500 years ago, ringworm is caused not by a worm but by a fungus, usually Microsporon audouini. In North America the commonest fungus disease is popularly called "athlete's foot...