Word: typhoidal
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...investigating "higher education in the area of Chinese civilization," as well as political situations in Formosa, Korea, Hong Kong, and Okinawa. "I don't know what the U.S. Government will think about someone out there poking around, but we'll see," he says. With his arms filled with typhoid shots and his smile as friendly as ever, Reischauer will against next year display his unique combination of the professor-statesman...
...graduate of Chinese military schools. A Communist since the late '30s, he is sometimes temperamental and needs to be watched by party theologians, but his hatred for the French is unwavering: his first wife went to jail for calling the Tricolor a "flag of dogs," and died of typhoid there...
...Researchers at Michigan State Health Laboratories and doctors in Mexico re ported a new antibiotic, Synnematin, as a prompt and effective cure for typhoid fever. Hitherto. Chloromycetin had been by far the best drug against typhoid. ¶ Britain's Medical Press suggested a new feature of social medicine. "The house wife . . . cannot present her husband with a medical certificate and take a few weeks' sick leave; she has to carry on ... until she is literally unable to stagger around the house." Since a woman could use sick pay to hire help while she got a rest, the journal...
When a third case stemming from the wedding was reported next day, the Department of Health went into action. Their quarry: the carrier who must have transmitted the typhoid. Five investigators and two nurses got in touch with all wedding guests they could trace, had them checked for infection. But many people at the party had just drifted in for the fun, and their names were unknown. As the investigators rang doorbells, three more guests came down with typhoid...
Health officials asked local TV and radio stations for help. Hourly appeals were broadcast, asking wedding guests to report for examination. Many of the guests had left town: some were as far away as Hawaii. By last week the number of typhoid victims had climbed to ten. One of them, eleven-year-old Tim Nahm, had died. Of the 300-odd guests only 231 were accounted...