Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handsome Profit. For Del Webb, who holds 46% of Webb Corp. stock, prosperity was slow in coming. Born in Fresno, Calif., he quit high school, became a bush-league pitcher until typhoid fever knocked him off the mound. Webb moved to Phoenix on doctor's orders, took up carpentry. Not until he was in his 405 did Webb get his big opportunity. He formed his own construction company, grew rich during World War II building military bases. After the war, Webb kept right on winning Government contracts, also moved into a variety of civilian enterprises, bought a share...
...attention were the bacteria, hulking big microbes (by comparison with viruses) that generally attack by producing systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
Because so many Mexican-Americans are migratory farm workers, and get as far as the Canadian borders in summer, some Northerners have feared that their fruits and vegetables might carry diseases. The study found no evidence of this. Typhoid, the most communicable of such diseases, is virtually unknown. But tuberculosis is rampant, and migratory workers often have relapses while far afield. When they get back home, they appeal to one of the more than 3,000 curanderos...
Sixty Hours, Six Days. Penn State's contingent had no need for the word of welcoming brass that the Peace Corps is to be no immature "kiddie corps.'' Arms aching with shots for everything from typhoid to TB, they began studying 60 hours a week on a six-day schedule (plus exams on Sundays) that is twice the load of ordinary Penn State students. In the Philippines, they will mainly teach elementary science, serve as models of spoken English. But to prepare, they are tackling everything from Philippine history, culture and economics to family habits...
...forms of Salmonella; after a brief clearing, the microbes reappeared. More trials in many patients will be needed to show whether Penbritin can be useful against the several forms of Salmonella and Shigella that cause much dysentery and enteric fever, and, most importantly, against Salmonella typhosa, the microbe of typhoid fever. Two encouraging characteristics were noted by the British Medical Journal: Penbritin appears to be remarkably free of unwanted side effects, and it has the advantage that it actually kills the microbes, whereas drugs previously used only starved them out by preventing their multiplication...