Word: rickettsialpox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Pomerantz, 54, an immigrant from Poland who did well in Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier-a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi...
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