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...Statistically, TB is at the top of the students' health problems," says Dr. Daniel Douady, the government's director of school and university health, "but who knows how many mentally ill are walking about? In a few years mental illness will clearly be problem No. 1−if it isn't already." Adds Jacques A. Gau, president of the National Mutual of the Students of France: "Three-quarters of the students who consult our doctors complain of anxiety, though they usually don't know precisely what the trouble is. And of the remaining 25%, many...
...cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time in the 1840s (one patient died; the others got sicker...
When 2,500 of the nation's TB fighters gathered in Manhattan last week for the National Tuberculosis Association's annual convention, it turned out that one of their newest worries is a disease that looks and acts like tuberculosis, but is something else. More disturbing still is the fact that the germ responsible for at least one type of the illness, formerly believed harmless, is now shown to be immune to at least two of the drugs most widely used to combat TB...
...Alarming increases" of the disease were reported by Microbiologist Marie L. Koch of the Wood (Wis.) Veterans Administration Center. There she found 297 cases, 156 in patients who also had tuberculosis and 141 in those free of TB. There has been a startlingly rapid increase in numbers of cases from 1954 to 1955. From Georgia's Battey State Hospital, Dr. Horace E. Crow reported discovery of a similar (perhaps the same) mystery bacillus in 69 patients...
...first time, alcohol last year killed more Frenchmen than tuberculosis: 17,400 deaths from alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver, with the rate still going up; 13,300 from TB, with the rate still going down...