Word: ringworm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that 70% of all U.S. veterinarians are in private community practice-about 40% working with food-producing animals and 30% with companion animals-yet one-fourth of all veterinarians are engaged in other health-related matters. Indeed, there are hundreds of diseases, including bovine tuberculosis, salmonellosis, psittacosis, rabies and ringworm, which are directly transmissible from animals to people. Tufts University has been successful in obtaining $10 million in federal funds to build the first veterinary school in New England. Unlike any other professional school in the country, it would enlist the participation of each of the region...
...housing conditions. The report concluded that the barracks, built as temporary shelters in 1941, were "unfit for human habitation" and an "outrage to common human decency." Font claimed that they contained roaches and rats and that the temperature of the hot water was 38 degrees. Cases of influenza and ringworm were common. Font included 85 statements from enlisted men and officers who complained of poor plumbing facilities, broken windows and holes in the barracks' walls...