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...Next day PM's Albert Deutsch asked U.N. World Health Organization officials. Their verdict: "The means of propagating cholera make it absolutely unfit as a weapon of bacterial warfare." The Associated Press reported that Russia was sending anti-cholera serum to Egypt...
...Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...during the building of the Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives...
Like some 6,000,000 other New Yorkers, the staff of TIME Inc. underwent this mass vaccination during the recent threatened smallpox epidemic. There were no serious casualties, although the TIME & LIFE Medical Department-assisted by a private physician and serum from the Willard Parker laboratories-put in a grueling week vaccinating about...
Disregarding Holmes' advice almost 200 handkerchief-wielding, bleary-eyed University students flock to the Hygiene Building at bi-weekly intervals to get injections for their malady. So great has been their onslaught that the bottles of serum used for the shots have overflowed one refrigerator, and the Hygiene Department has been forced to install another one to handle the rush...