Word: immunologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should everyone be immunized against lockjaw? Yes, answers Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Edsall of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a report to the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate...
...Boston spawned a new disease in 1951, doctors there concluded after studying reports of 2,450 cases. Still unnamed, it is mild and so like German measles that only an immunologist could tell them apart. It usually attacks children, gives them a red rash, sore throat, muscle aches, and a short-lived fever of 102° F. Now that doctors know what to look for, they will probably find it outside Boston...