Word: typhoidal
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...Typhoid fever is usually easy to prevent-thanks to modern sanitation and vaccination. But once the disease takes hold, doctors have had no specific cure. But a medical "mistake" in Malaya now offers hope...
...little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down with it 14 years ago, just when he was beginning to go places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit...
Then came the '47 floods, and although little action followed, the battle between the Pick-Sloan group and the MVA-ers increased in vigor. One prominent MVA man said scornfully that "assigning the United States Army engineers to the job of controlling floods . . . is precisely like sending Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid epidemic." Now, with a stingy Congress and international distractions, Pick's 10-year estimate on Missouri River control should probably be changed to 100 years. And MVA, for all its local support, is apparently on the shelf for a long time to come. the only thing that...
...test tubes, aerosporin proved many times more effective than streptomycin, weight for weight, against typhoid, dysentery, cholera, the plague, other intestinal infections. In mice, it worked against the whooping cough organism (which defies other antibiotics), typhoid, possibly against enteric fever...
Aerosporin looks good, but the final returns are not yet in. The British Ministry of Health thinks enough of it to help its discoverers with tests on typhoid fever...