Word: typhoidal
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...most of the U.S. most of the time, typhoid is a "dead" disease. Nobody is in much danger of catching it, and doctors rarely look for it. But occasionally the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhosa), as if to keep its charter in the society of menaces, strikes back. This year a baffling outbreak has spread across three Midwestern states. It hit Minnesota most severely in January, Iowa in April. Wisconsin has had a gradual dose of it since the first of the year. To date there have been 121 cases (one death, in Iowa). The victims were from both urban...
Last week federal and state disease detectives met in Madison, Wis. to pool their clues. But the clues did not add up to an explanation for the outbreak. Public water supplies and fluid milk had been checked and exonerated. The typhoid could not be blamed on a single cause, such as a single batch of perishable food, because such a source would produce a rash of cases in a small area at about the same time...
...Department of Hygiene gives smallpox, tetanus and typhoid immunization free of charge, and will administer typhus and cholera immunization, though the student must purchase his own vaccine...
...first medical school in all the Louisiana Purchase territory. Over conservative Creole (Sorbonne-trained) opposition, Dr. Hunt and his successors built a good regional school in a city which in three years (1833-35) had had 19,000 deaths in a population of 50,000-caused largely by typhoid, cholera and yellow jack...
Hopefully they go on: "We may envisage the use of a standard packet of antigens . . . for the great bulk of the consumers. This would [represent] the various strains of the Group A streptococci, and the staphylococci, pneumococci, tubercle bacilli, typhoid, paratyphoid and diphtheria organisms, and eventually the virus antigens of poliomyelitis, rubella, measles and other diseases. Other packets of disease antigens for special regions, seasons or fractions of the population might be demanded...