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Word: gengoubacillus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnegie and the Miller family. Son-in-law Miller's donation to Johns Hopkins financed the bed & board of 13 chimpanzees. These apes contract whooping cough as easily as do children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whooping News | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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