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...apathy, Negro disease rate is many times that of the whites. During the last five years here in Clay Country, which is equally divided between the races, there have been 499 gonorrhea cases reported among Negroes to five among whites, 85 Negro case of syphilis and one white. The TB rate is equally high. One cannot blame the Negro for this situation, but on the other hand, neither can one fail to se why white parents are apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes on any large or immediate basis...
After months of this, Dostoevsky fell all the way back to Russia, in time to see his wife waste away and die of TB. An ash-blonde, 20-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina, who came to take dictation for The Gambler and Crime and Punishment, stayed on to become the second Mrs. Dostoevsky, and his last and greatest love...
...Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 1954 helped organize mass health campaigns that examined 400 million children in 88 countries, vaccinating 14 million against TB, treating 2,000,000 for yaws and other skin diseases, 9,000,000 against malaria and typhus...
...Tornadoes may spread a rare disease, reported Meteorologist Nicholas Manos of the U.S. Public Health Service. Amid the dust they can pick up and spread is the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a TB-like disease of the lungs, marked also by swelling of the liver and spleen...
...kitten," "pup," "lamb," and "my little crocodile," but she was really something of a big-name hunter out to bag the half-dead lion of the Russian theater. They scarcely lived together, but she was with him on a trip through Germany in 1904 when the final TB attack came. The doctor ordered an ice pack placed on his heart, and Chekhov said, "You don't put an ice pack on an empty heart." Then the doctor insisted that he drink a glass of champagne. Chekhov's last words: "It's a long time since...