Word: histolytica
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Dysentery, long known as the "Bloody Flux," is Menace No. 2. There are two varieties: one, caused by bacilli, used to kill ten to 40%, can now be successfully treated with sulfaguanidine; the other, caused by Endameba histolytica, a one-celled parasite, often produces lifelong intestinal ailments. Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I, by rigid cleanliness in cooking, strict inspection of food handlers, water and supplies...
...dramatically made the nation aware of an insidious epidemic which plagued the first summer of the Century of Progress (TIME. Nov. 20). Everyone who had been in Chicago, particularly everyone who had eaten in the Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have died, Entameba histolytica may lie dormant for months or years. Cases, some of them traceable directly to Chicago, are sporadically coming...
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