Word: typhoidal
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...