Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wormy scalp rested his head on the back of a public seat. He thereby infected many other little Queens boys who lolled back in the same seat. They infected more chairs, more little boys. Then some little Queens boys infected chair backs and friends in Manhattan, and ringworm (a fungus infection caused by Microsporon audouini) began its vicious circle. Now there are infected seats in New York City's cinemansions, barber shops, subways and busses...
Dermatologists used to think pinta was a fungus disease, but in 1938, Mexican doctors proved that the germ is a spirochete that looks exactly like those of syphilis or yaws (a tropical disease characterized by sores on the skin). In 1939, Mexico's Dr. Francisco Leon y Blanco published the results of experiments on himself and 31 Mexican and Cuban volunteers, all of whom had been inoculated with material from pinta patients. Dr. Leon y Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears...
Skol made a hit in the U.S. too, and Gallowhur began to look for something else. Soon he found 1) a new formula for protecting fabrics from mildew, fungus, etc., developed by a young Oregon chemist named Frank Sowa, 2) an insect-repelling chemical developed by U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. He named the first "Puratized Process," the second "Skat." Both products automatically became strategic when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
...even a name; now its 500 Seattle employes turn out one prefabricated wooden igloo every 15 minutes for U.S. troops in Alaska, and its gross volume runs up to $6,000,000 a year. The 4½-ton Pacific huts are rainproof, stormproof, termite-proof, fungus-proof, even proof against cold...