Word: tularemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, long noted as the place where O. Henry blossomed as a writer,*and the scene of a 1930 fire that killed 320 inmates, won favorable attention not long ago for the prisoners' willingness to volunteer for tularemia (rabbit fever) experiments and to donate skin for victims of severe burns...
...Tularemia...
Several of the diseases which Dr. Haas said might be spread by saboteurs or enemy raiders cannot be effectively guarded against by inoculation-e.g., influenza, parrot fever, Q fever, tularemia, some fungus infections, botulism.* And even in cases where immunity can be given, individual inoculation is costly and cumbersome. Dr. Haas suggests that forward-looking researchers try to figure out a way of giving simultaneous protection to hundreds of people in an auditorium by forcing the immunizing agent into the air-circulating system...