Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yaws, afflicting about a third of all Haitians, long confused with syphilis because of their loathesome, gaping sores. Spread mainly by flies, also by ticks, lice and bedbugs, yaws affect mostly Negroes, "is a consequence of abject poverty." It can be cured by salvarsan, but the process is costly, painful, interminable...
...Recently there have been many instances of envelopes mailed at field posts containing live lice to show to families. The senders do not realize the danger . . . of spreading typhus. ... A mutual comradely education must prevent the country from being subjected to such acts...
Perhaps the readers were hasty with their grins. But they could not help feeling that this May was different. After all, this May the Japanese planes had not once crawled like silver lice across Chungkings coolie-cloth...
...cholera can be controlled by vaccination-repeated twice a year-in which the Japanese were pioneers; 2) while there is no specific treatment besides potassium permanganate pills, the spread of the disease can be checked by sterilizing drinking water, cooking all food. Typhus can be controlled only by exterminating lice...
...offensive that never ends: man's battle against insects. It is a fight against the grasshoppers, the Mormon crickets, the boll weevils, the chinch bugs, the now doubly despised Japanese beetles and other pests that do two-billion-dollar damage every year in the U.S. alone; against flies, lice, roaches, mosquitoes and other infamous bugs that carry disease. Entomologists estimate that the U.S. harbors 7,000 species of insect pests. Said Entomologist Stephen Alfred Forbes of Illinois: "The struggle between man and insects began before the dawn of civilization . . . and will continue, no doubt, as long as the human...