Word: typhoid
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...Hammer, striking deals with Communist nations is nearly instinctive by now. He made his first trip to the Soviet Union in 1921 to help out during a typhoid epidemic. By 1925 Hammer had won a Soviet concession to manufacture writing implements. According to one source, his plant produced 72 million pencils and 95 million pens in a single year...
...Elliotts suffered through typhoid fever, malaria and amoebic dysentery. But their most wrenching experience was the loss last year of their home. Left-wing guerrilla activity around Nebaj got so heavy, says Ray, that "our presence was endangering our friends." Along with all Catholic missionaries, they had to pull out of the war zone...
...water was briefly turned on again, though this did not help apartment dwellers; the electrically powered pumps would not work. New wells were being dug all over the city, and trucks carrying water toured every district. Much of the water was unclean and carried with it a risk of typhoid and cholera, according to U.N. health officials. People had little choice but to drink it anyway. Fresh fruit and vegetables were no longer available, flour was in short supply, and lines formed at dawn outside shops that were lucky enough to have any bread to sell. The siege came...
...list of deadly but controllable diseases is long and impressive: plague, diphtheria, malaria, polio, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever. Even cancer and heart disease at last seem to be yielding up their secrets to medical research. But in the past ten years, doctors have focused on a number of mysterious "new" ailments, notably Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome...
Over the past decade, the alarms have sounded with ever greater frequency and urgency. Pollution in the celebrated body of water that was the cradle of Western civilization endangered those who make their home or living along its shores. Outbreaks of dysentery, viral hepatitis and typhoid have become common in some areas. Scientists in the know joke that to order oysters in a restaurant in Rome or Naples is to play "Italian roulette." And it is all happening in the world's most popular vacation playground: the Mediterranean, host to 100 million tourists a year...