Word: lice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discover that all the variously-named illnesses were the same disease, caused by Bacterium tularense. He named it tularemia. Periodically thinning out the rabbit population by thousands, tularemia also affects many another small animal. Its germ is carried from animal to animal by deer-flies, ticks, lice, fleas. Man may contract it from insect bites, or by direct contact with an infected animal. It usually begins with a small ulcer at the point of infection, followed by glandular swelling. Tularemia kills only about 4% of its human victims but illness is painful, convalescence slow. Up to 1924 only 15 human...
...hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies heavily infested with lice. . . . "Bayonet and sword cuts with frequent powder burns gave evidence of close fighting. There were no victims or evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many...
...they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that single lap and 1.354 points for sprints, to the runner-up's 714 points. Peden & Letourner collected $5,000 of the $30,000 purse. Peden sped on to Cleveland to begin another grind three days later...
...rats, lice, cockroaches, spiders, ants, flies, snakes, frogs, toads and waterbugs that make their home in the municipal dump of Lynn, Mass, spent an unhappy week, their second unhappy week since the cool September nights began. Upon them, even when it was not raining, had descended tons and tons of water. Then came gases, liquid chemicals. Now came fire. The dump was surrounded and assaulted by blueshirted firemen, bent not on putting the fire out but on spreading it. Soon the dump became a truly impossible place to live in and a great many prudent roaches and rats began moving...
...Since lice are well known to transmit typhus, Santiago went in for city-wide delousing. Theatres were disinfected every night. So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus. Abruptly all dance halls, billiard parlors and swimming pools in the capital were closed...