Word: infected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sahl is the embodiment of the cynicism, moral decay, and retreat from responsibility which currently infect this great land...
...operates independently of the staph. It consists, he suspects, of assorted viruses commonly found in the human respiratory tract. How these viruses team with the bacteria to act as a spreading agent is not known, but they do the job so effectively that a single cloud baby can readily infect a whole room and anybody who enters it. The viruses and bacteria do this, says the Journal, "without any hint of a sneeze" to get them airborne. It all adds up to "an almost unbelievable phenomenon...
Around the world there are dozens of fungi that infect man, animals or the soil, reported the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Libero Ajello, and their distribution changed radically during World War II. Species that had been confined to the Asian and Australasian tropics found new hosts in U.S. servicemen on Pacific duty, and Korean orphans carried one species to Europe. Dermatophytology (the study of fungi that infect the skin) may give a valuable assist to anthropology, Dr. Ajello suggested, because a variety prevalent in eastern Asia occurs also among Central American Indians, supporting the theory...