Word: paratyphoid
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...even if the prophecy contradicts the more rational side of my mind. On the other hand, the Indian mystic wasn't a total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
...examinations revealed that at least 50 pilots, nearly all of them Americans who fly charter planes, had diseases that could have made them unfit to fly. Some had serious cardiovascular disorders which might not have shown up in FAA exams. Other problems discovered included diabetes, liver ailments, syphilis, tuberculosis, paratyphoid fever and kidney disease. Several had two or more maladies...
...lives, and in some cases when no other drug is likely to do so. How many? Most medical opinion holds that Chloromycetin is just about the best drug against psittacosis ("parrot fever"), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, a total of 484 cases; murine typhus, 33 cases; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 263 cases; one form of meningitis caused by Hemophilus bacilli, exact number of cases not known, but probably less than...
...George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis...
Police were curious about the fact that several people closely connected with the Lacazes had died suddenly. Domenica's first husband, wealthy Art Collector Paul Guillaume, was first thought to have drowned, and then was said to have died of paratyphoid. Jean Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night...