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Several of the diseases which Dr. Haas said might be spread by saboteurs or enemy raiders cannot be effectively guarded against by inoculation-e.g., influenza, parrot fever, Q fever, tularemia, some fungus infections, botulism.* And even in cases where immunity can be given, individual inoculation is costly and cumbersome. Dr. Haas suggests that forward-looking researchers try to figure out a way of giving simultaneous protection to hundreds of people in an auditorium by forcing the immunizing agent into the air-circulating system...
...Addams came to know so much about the inhabitants of Satan's Little Acre, if he himself is not at least a weekend commuter (represented in the drawings, some think, by that disembodied head that sometimes grows on a rotting floorboard and stares at the observer like a fungus with a mind...
...boasts about gathering chestnuts as a barefoot boy is usually owning up to getting on in years. Nearly all U.S. chestnut trees were destroyed by a fast-spreading fungus disease which started in New York City before 1910. Since then there have been many attempts to find or breed blight-resistant chestnuts. Most of the new or introduced trees were unsuited to the climate, or they required too much care, or they produced poor nuts or low-grade timber. None had all the qualities of the old trees...
...they soon found what the island had in store for them. When the supporting Navy took a pasting in the Battle of Savo Island and went off to lick its wounds, the 1st was left alone on Guadalcanal with the Japanese, the jungle, malaria, dysentery, fungus disease. In control of the sea and air, the Japanese constantly reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt...
...East, says Dr. Rogers, this method, haphazard at best, does not work: there are no ground squirrels. Eastern mycophagists (fungus eaters) have to go back to first principles and use trained animals. Either dogs or hogs will do, but dogs are nicer to have around the house...