Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Namru-2 is a mobile, down-to-earth outfit which operates on the premise that more fighting men have been felled by disease than by broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush, argued Chinese followers of Confucius...
From scattered points in Atlantic, Cape May and Ocean counties in southern New Jersey, other bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis...
There is very little doctors can do about it. One promising vaccine against "B"-type viruses developed at Johns Hopkins University (TIME, March 4, 1957) has not yet proved its worth; the few vaccines against "A" encephalitis forms are still laboratory curiosities. Nor have health authorities often had success in wiping out the mosquito vectors. In some cases where encephalitis-carrying insects in a given area were wiped out, it is suspected that the virus simply sought out new vectors...
...state's victims (mostly children under ten and the aged) last week, there was little that doctors could do but keep down body temperatures. Work crews were spraying swamps with oil and DDT. To everyone in the affected areas. Health Commissioner Roscoe Kandle issued a sharp warning: stay clear of swamps and farmyards where mosquitoes or infected animals abound...
...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...