Word: paratyphoid
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...Typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus...
...Although London has 8,000 miles of water mains, and every big main has been broken at some time or other, there has been no typhoid fever. Reason: large quantities of chlorine were immediately poured into the water. There has been, confessed Sir Wilson, a good deal of paratyphoid, a milder cousin of typhoid. This was traced to unclean bakeshops...
Only unusual case in Still man this year is David C. Jones '40 who contracted a case of paratyphoid fever this summer. Although in the infirmary for the last three weeks, he is now well on the road to recovery...
Treatment is not standardized, varies according to the symptoms. For loss of appetite, Vitamin B may be prescribed; for rheumatic pains, artificial fever. Injection of typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine often stimulates the human body to produce antibodies which fight the disease. Recently, sulfanilamide has also proved of value...
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever (comparatively rare) are 10% more prevalent than usual, due mainly to cases in Louisiana and Texas...