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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Poisoned Air | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...name of the county, with a slight disguise, is widely known. Rabbit fever, identified in Tulare County, was named tularemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Local Boy | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

This week Lederle doctors report claims of success in treating whooping cough and tularemia (rabbit fever). Dr. Duggar is still busy at the work he loves. He has some 200 new samples of soil, is looking for still another antibiotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Success Story | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...experimenters "set out to discover which diseases, spread by air, are most easily contracted and most fatal. Tularemia (rabbit fever) won on both counts. Runners-up: melioidosis, a glanders-like Oriental disease; glanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs for World War III? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Argasidae and Ixodidae are the two U.S. tick families. In dozens of varieties they infect man with diseases that are often fatal: Kenya typhus, South African tick-bite fever, Bullis fever, Russian encephalitis, the Q fevers, tularemia (rabbit fever), tick paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This summer, in southern Maryland, Texas, and other tick-infested areas, widespread experiments in spotted fever vaccination are being tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tick Time | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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