Word: typhoidal
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Some of the modern plagues of Eygpt: ¶Egypt: Amoebic dysentery, which afflicts every villager; bilharzia, an energy-sapping parasitic disease which infects 92%; intestinal worms, 64%; syphilis, 6.5%. ¶Typhoid fever, which seizes 2% each year; 6% of the population are typhoid carriers...
Juniors going on this summer's NROTC cruise to Europe got five shots apiece yesterday. Schick tests, tetanus boosters, typhoid shots, and vaccinations came in rapid succession...
...rugged Schneeberg region straddling the border between Czechoslovakia and East Germany, the Russians have herded half a million human beings to dig uranium. Sanitary conditions are among the world's worst: open sewers and crowded barracks breed typhoid and dysentery, rats spread plague, and prostitution keeps the venereal disease-rate high. Last week, westbound fugitives from the mines told of an added horror which has turned many miners into choking wrecks: Schneeberger Krankheit (Snow-Mountain sickness...
...week's end, as though Italy had not suffered enough, typhoid threatened to break out. Engineers surveying the area concluded that it would be months before flood waters receded from the Po delta, bread basket of Italy...
...grown old in the State Department. As boss of the 15-man employee services section of the division of foreign service personnel, Mr. Will has been a sort of Stateside housemother for diplomats. Before a consul or an ambassador goes overseas, Mr. Will arranges for his inoculation against typhoid, yellow fever, bubonic plague. When Mrs. Ambassador wants to insure her mahogany breakfront before shipping it to New Delhi, Mr. Will quotes her rates and advises her on routes. If she wants to stock up on U.S. luxuries, Mr. Will has a list of stores which grant departing diplomatic personnel...