Word: hydrophobia
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Pittsburgh, which has the worst rabies epidemic in the history of the city, with 305 rabid dogs since January 1943, and three deaths from hydrophobia...
...typical year about 7,000 U.S. dogs get rabies, infect thousands of people with the deadly virus. But only 50 to 100 people die of hydrophobia, because nearly all those infected get the Pasteur injections in time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...
...evening walking up the street, their stockings so weighted down with silver dollars that it was all they could do to navigate." Added another: "There were some sprightly-lookin' lasses down there. . . . But there was plenty of tough-lookin' blisters too. A man could have got hydrophobia from even lookin' at them...
...columnist's finger was a mess. But she had the last word. She re-entered the Café Royal, her finger dripping. "Is there a doctor in the house?" she inquired. "I think I have hydrophobia...
...refugees back home in time to take care of the harvest, organized transportation and even supplied vehicles. Young Nazi soldiers were so ultra polite that Parisians saw in their conduct an implied criticism of their own customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed and there was talk of municipal scrip being issued. With over 1,200,000 persons jobless in the Paris area alone...