Word: neuwirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, a U.S. Army medical officer on leave, is health adviser (TIME, Nov. 9). Smallpox, typhus and typhoid epidemics are continuous. Seven out of every ten Persian children die before they are nine years old. The Government refused to order compulsory inoculations, fearing that the hungry people would revolt. Best Neuwirth could get was inoculation of the entire Persian army. With the backing of the Prime Minister, Neuwirth has finally won approval for a closed water system to replace Teheran's open ditches, contaminated by street sweepings, garbage, dogs, horses, filthy humanity...
...Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the Iranian Government gave Dr. Neuwirth its first scientific decoration...
...whole Iranian army has been vaccinated-against typhus fever. The ambitious project is the work of a U.S. Army surgeon, Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, who has been tackling one unprecedented epidemiological problem after another at Teheran...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to manufacture typhus vaccine by the new Cox egg-culture method.* Dr. Neuwirth vaccinated thousands of Iranians where typhus threatened, induced the Government to order compulsory vaccination of the whole army-some 200,000 soldiers. (No vaccine against typhus gives sure-fire protection, but vaccination helps...
...Bagdad boils." On leishmania vaccine, Dr. Neuwirth ran into a new difficulty. Iran is not rich in chickens, and he could not find enough eggs to make the quantities of leishmania vaccine he needed. So he ground up chick embryos, watered them down with a saline solution and added this to an ordinary culture medium. The vaccine develops nicely in this egg-stimulated solution, and a few eggs go a long way. Dr. Neuwirth is now testing his leishmania vaccine on 200 Iranian moppets, hoping if the treatment succeeds to save thousands from death or disfigurement...