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...Governor Frank Morrison of Nebraska, 60, a Democrat, announced that he would contest the Senate seat held by 'conservative Republican Sena tor Carl Curtis, 60, floor manager for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 G.O.P...
...Named for a Gulf of Suez port (through which pilgrims pass on the way to Mecca) where a harmless variety of vibrio was first found. Only later was the virulent form of El Tor found in Celebes...
Cholera in 1965 is a far more complex problem than medical men expected it to be. And with El Tor taking over, the oldest plague is becoming one the newest...
Complete prevention of cholera by cleaning up or isolating contaminated water supplies-a more effective method of prevention than the wearing of fantastic anti-cholera costumes with a windmill on the hat (see cut]-no longer seems feasible. El Tor bacilli have spread too far, over millions of square miles. Vaccination would seem to be the next best step, but after 80 years experts still cannot agree on how good the vaccines are, or how to make the best one. Though injections of killed bacilli, as in the vaccines now generally used, stimulate the production of antibody in the blood...
...military medics are considering an attempt to develop an El Tor vaccine, but the need for it in U.S. forces is not clearly defined. Although El Tor is now established among the civilians of South Viet Nam, there has not been a single case among U.S. forces. This relative safety comes partly from luck, the medics concede, and partly from the fact that the old-fashioned vaccine they are now using seems to confer some protection against El Tor. The most important reason, say the doctors, is that cholera, like smallpox, rarely takes hold unless its victim is debilitated...