Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...
...Come Too. In Philadelphia, eight-year-old streptococcus victim Mary Ann Potter said, "I wouldn't mind dying if only papa would go along with me," then died. Three hours later her father had a fatal heart attack...
...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...
Died. Wendell L. Willkie, 52, of coronary thrombosis following streptococcus infection; in Manhattan...
...simple method the researchers have made vaccines against the colon bacillus, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus (boils, septicemia, etc.), one type of pneumonia, one streptococcus, St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) virus, rabies virus. Tests on other germs, and vaccine trials during human epidemics, are yet to come...