Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penicillin prince, Penbritin,* which promises to carry the fight against groups of microbes that have defied all previous penicillins. If it fulfills its early promise, Penbritin will become the first-choice drug against several forms of food poisoning, certain types of respiratory infections and meningitis, and possibly typhoid fever as well...
...females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes in Latin America...
...times tastes "like hell-fire." In St. Louis County, residents have been warned that future water supplies are imperiled by increasing pollution of the Missouri at Kansas City. Says a state engineer: "We have just about exhausted all the water-purification methods known at this time." A brief typhoid outbreak last year in Keene, N.H.-traced to contaminated water-killed one person, struck down 18 others. Incidence of infectious hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal viral disease of the liver, which can be transmitted by polluted water, is up 71% over 1959. Says the U.S. Public Health Service: "The problem...
...Anderson is the spray gun's hottest marksman, has used it to give vaccinations against typhoid in Brazil, cholera in Pakistan and Thailand, yellow fever in the Sudan, influenza at U.S. Navy stations. Now medical officer of the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Dr. Anderson responded to Rhode Island health officers' appeals for help in mass immunization by working at makeshift clinics on his own time. He had so many takers that he has had to squeeze in his Air Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled...
Clark's microscopic sleeping beauties. The ATCC made more than 8,000 shipments in 1959. Disease germs went mostly to medical schools and drug companies (no amateurs need apply for plague or typhoid), but nonharmful cultures went to everybody who asked. High schools got standardized bacteria for biology experiments at the bargain price of $2 per vial...