Word: strepping
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...monopolized this year's match despite their crack rivals. After a day's shooting, -they were tied. Next day Policeman Reeves finished up 14 points ahead of Benner. But on the final day of the match. Reeves was a candidate for a hospital bed. With a fiery strep throat, full of fever (104°) and penicillin, he dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves...
...bore. Kissing can be not only a pleasant but a harmless pastime if ordinary lip and mouth hygiene is practiced." But Dr. Bryan still refuses a flat answer to the original question. If the partner happens to be in the early stages of a serious infection (such as strep throat), a kiss can still be dangerous. It involves a calculated risk...
...Rammelkamp's team began this discovery while working at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., where many cases of rheumatic fever had developed. The researchers started with the fact that about three weeks after the beginning of a strep infection, the victim develops antibodies in his system as the streptococci are disposed...
Says Dr. Rammelkamp: "Since rheumatic fever attacks about 3% of strep patients at this same time, we figured that these antibodies were the culprits. So if we could cure the strep infection before the three weeks were up, the patient's body would be relieved of the necessity for producing these antibodies, thus thwarting the development of rheumatic fever...
...worked. When penicillin killed off the streptococci early, rheumatic fever was prevented in almost every case. Dr. Rammelkamp's conclusion: "Since roughly 60% of all strep throats are severe enough to make the patient seek a physician's advice, it is now possible to prevent 60% of rheumatic fever cases...