Word: tularemia
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...gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...Laboratory Assistant Rose Parrott, the Institute's first woman worker, died of tularemia (rabbit fever) last autumn, ten days after she was to have been retired after 30 years' service. She had not even entered the room where tularemia work was done. (Most tularemia workers get it sooner or later...
...deaths of Dr. Henderson and Rose Parrott, within six weeks of each other, had spurred Congress into appropriating the money. The lab will be divided into six isolated sections, each devoted to a single type of disease (e.g., tularemia, scrub typhus, influenza, fungus infections). Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals...
...Neither sulfa drugs nor penicillin will cure or prevent tuberculosis, leprosy, typhus, tularemia, undulant fever, virus diseases (e.g., infantile paralysis), mumps (probably a virus disease), whooping cough, colds and influenza, pregnancy...
...test tubes, streptomycin has destroyed the bacilli of tuberculosis and leprosy, the bacterium of tularemia. It has saved mice from dying of salmonella infections. Tested on human beings for toxicity, it has proved not dangerous...