Word: meningococcus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Colonel Ro'land Sigafoos, the base medical officer, was not taken by surprise. There are epidemics every few years in big camps; the Navy had had one only last year at San Diego (TIME, March 22, 1963). Sometimes, daily doses of sulfadiazine are a good preventive, but the meningococcus germs storming Fort Ord were of a type resistant to sulfas...
...dosage was supposed to clean out transient meningococci, the microbes that cause this form of inflammation of the brain covering. But for five weeks, sporadic new cases of meningitis kept cropping up. The Navy flew in Dr. Harry A. Feldman, the nation's top authority on the meningococcus, and the specialist from Syracuse, N.Y., ran blood tests on a sample of 20 recruits. He found that only eight of the boots had faithfully taken their tablets. The Navy was up against a perennial problem: too many people would rather take chances than take medicine...
...Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...