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...philosophical reasons than for anything else. He said simply that he is involved with running, not winning. Burns, an intense red-headed sophomore, has stayed on the track team, although he says he has had some misgivings. His reasons for running in the Boston Marathon are different from Kala...
...playmakers are Hamilton, of Kala Kazoo Mich., Schreiber, of Wooster, Ohio and Dick Hurley, of nearby Belmont. They are all good competitors and hustlers, according to Wilson...
Though it is fatal in 90% to 95% of untreated cases, kala-azar can nearly always be cured with antimony compounds...
...Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, report Dr. William J. Senter and two colleagues in the current American Journal of Medicine, Noles was found to have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
...Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...