Word: typhoidal
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Nearly a month later, a Los Angeles doctor stopped in to see an ailing patient. He quickly spotted some disturbing symptoms : high fever, intestinal pain, diarrhea. He ordered analysis of blood and stool samples. Back came confirmation of his worst fears: typhoid fever. Next day he found similar symptoms in a second patient. Thoroughly alarmed, he notified the Department of Health...
...department's medical sleuths found that the two typhoid victims had but one contact in common: on a cool evening in June, they had both attended the wedding of Diane and Herbert Kang...
...rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of the onion crop in the lower Rio Grande valley, a quarter of the tomato crop and 10% of the cantaloupes were ruined. Health officers labored day and night against the threat of typhoid, by week's end had inoculated 60,000 people...
Tricky Water. Cincinnati has been a center for U.S. public-health studies since 1913, when health engineers settled in an old downtown mansion to study Ohio River pollution. Water-borne typhoid fever, raging in the Ohio Valley in those days, was their chief concern. Nowadays, the typhoid bacillus is "literally no longer a problem" to Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, research director of the center. His staff must now tackle the far more complex problems of contamination of both water and food by viruses and fungi, synthetic chemicals and radioactivity...
...Alfred Charles Kinsey was the son of a self-made man who had started as a shopboy at Stevens Institute of Technology, and later headed its department of mechanical arts. Little Alfred spent most of his first ten years in bed, beset by rickets, heart trouble and finally typhoid fever (which nearly killed him). Then the family moved ten miles from smoggy Hoboken to the green hills of South Orange, and Alfred's health improved. He speaks with almost ferocious intensity of what South Orange meant to him: 'Twas raised in city streets. It was amazing...