Word: typhoidal
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...read about Thornhill, a resettlement camp for blacks who are in the process of being removed from the townships outside white cities to the Ciskei bantustand. Last month, a typhoid epidemic of about 130 cases broke out among Thornhill's 10,000-odd residents. The camp's medical facilities were expanded to meet the emergency: Thornhill now boasts a full-time staff nurse and a six-bed hospital. From the country that brought you Dr. Barnhard and his heart transplants...
Some of Carter's economic aides served him about as well as Typhoid Mary in the kitchen. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal talked down the value of the dollar last year -a cheap dollar was supposed to stimulate exports. Carter might have foreseen that as the dollar fell, prices of imports would rise, lifting with them the prices of similar domestic products, from Wisconsin gorgonzola to Detroit subcompacts. Budget Chief James Mclntyre last January submitted a fiscal 1979 budget that projected a $61 billion deficit, even though the country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have...
...Typhoid Mary...
...promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip. Like any other tourist headed for Asia, he took pills to ward off malaria and was inoculated against cholera and typhoid. He pored over thick briefing books. He packed a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book...
With enteric pathogens the danger of secondary cases is even less, for with this class of agents modern sanitation provides infinitely better control than we can provide for respiratory infection: in contrast to influenza, the appearance of a case of typhoid in a home does not lead to an epidemic. Enteric epidemics appear only with inadequate personal hygiene or sanitation, and such epidemics are always small (except when sewage freely enters the water supply...