Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the privy program started, - 1935, health officials have noted a "gradual decline" in filth-borne diseases such as malaria and hookworm, a marked decline in the typhoid death rate. Said Mississippi's Sanitary Engineer Herbert Andrew Kroeze last week: "The privies are saving many lives...
Truckers. Groggy from typhoid and cholera inoculations, but bubbling with enthusiasm at the prospect of the toughest job of a tough career, rawboned, hulking, strikebreaking Dan Arnstein was en route from San Francisco to China. Product of the violence of Chicago's stockyard district, a onetime professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever...
Undulant fever may smolder for years, suddenly flare up into a complex disease resembling typhoid, malaria or tuberculosis. It is caused by any of three germs of the group Brucella (named after Sir David Bruce, who discovered the strain in 1886). Brucellae infect cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, cause a disease known as contagious abortion. Between 11 and 20% of all U.S. cattle are infected, causing a yearly loss to farmers of some $80,000,000. The disease is transmitted to man through milk, butter, cheese, and through handling of infected carcasses; it is not passed from one person...
...sometimes a long time coming, in China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
Rochester, N. Y. had a scare six weeks ago, when water from the dirty Genesee River was mistakenly turned into the city's water pipes. Since then there have been bellyaches, some dysentery, three cases of typhoid, claims of $173,000 filed against the city...