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...West Coast jitters did not infect the U.S. Public Health Service, which has seen cases drop from 48,907 in 1930, to 346 in 1945. Said Assistant Surgeon General R. C. Williams: "Smallpox is now practically a self-limiting disease. When ever you get a scare, everyone within 100 miles gets vaccinated...
...some other countries (e.g., France, Italy) Russia is for the moment content to infect a minority big and influential enough to prevent policies she considers highly undesirable, though not big enough to get control. Still a third group of countries (e.g., India, Spain) is exposed to Communist contagion, largely because their present regimes have not solved pressing political and social problems...
...Flies in the home of a polio victim may infect exposed food. In Science, Yale researchers reported finding polio virus in the stools of two laboratory chimpanzees after the apes were fed sliced bananas which had been exposed in the homes of North Carolina polio victims...
...than victory was in the air last week. Poisonously, pervading even the conquerors' exultation, dying Germany's stench hung over Europe. The Nazi Leviathan might be as hard to bury as a whale on a beach. Unless the victors quickly perfected their disposal plans, the carcass would infect the peace...
...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...