Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legionnaire who attended the Pennsylvania American Legion convention and one who became sick and survived the "Philly Killer," I thought you should know that CDC, Atlanta, was first notified of the problem by Sidney N. Franklin, M.D., and Mary McLaughlin, public health nurse coordinator, who immediately "rang the gong" after my examination at the Veterans Administration Out-Patient Clinic, Philadelphia, on Monday...
While Arab kills Arab in a never ending orgy of fratricide in what once was Lebanon, Israel opens her border and treats the sick and wounded, feeds the hungry and offers work to Lebanese Christians and Moslems alike...
...Dovev, midway along the border, men and women, children and old people, sick and hale, last week trooped to the Israeli gate across a tobacco field green with flowering plants. A clinic had been set up; those seeking medical care were given numbers by armed Israeli soldiers and shown a place to wait. An outhouse and a pipe for drinking water had also been put up near by. "In sha 'allah, let it be like this for the rest of our lives," said a young Maronite farmer at the fence last week...
...Hello, I'm part of the medical team investigating this weird disease," said Dr. Stephen Thacker, 28, as he sat down beside Thomas Payne's bed in Chambersburg Hospital. "How do you feel? When did you first feel sick? Where did you eat and stay in Philadelphia? When did you arrive there? When did you leave? Did you go to the testimonial dinner? Or the go-getter's breakfast? Did you go to the hospitality rooms for the state commander or other officials? Did you have any contact with pigs...
...pioneer immigrants brought their foul European diseases with them. Aboard their ships, filthy water and human and animal wastes sloshed around in the bilges for a month or more. Men and women who were healthy when they left Europe were sick when they landed -not only from malnutrition but also from infections picked up at sea. Some, such as smallpox, malaria and measles, proved effective biological-warfare weapons, ravaging the Indians, who had no immunity against them. But most of the disease-causing microbes of the Old World took readily to the fertile soil of the New World...