Word: typhoidal
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...authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because of bomb damage to water mains...
...five cases of typhoid and two of undulant fever, reported by Philadelphia's Dr. Hobart Reimann to the New York Academy of Medicine, streptomycin chalked up five cures out of seven. The results are still far from conclusive, but the failures, said Dr. Reimann, might easily have been caused by incorrect dosage and a still insufficient supply of the drug...
...likeliest time for epidemics has just arrived. The worldwide 1918-19 influenza epidemic did not start until the end of the war. Typhus, cholera, relapsing fever, smallpox, dysentery and typhoid devastated eastern Europe "after the cessation of hostilities and following the disintegration of established government over wide areas...
...seed of epidemics has multiplied and spread during the war. In twelve continental European countries, incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever has more than doubled since war began. But as the world had less disease in 1939 than in 1914, infection is still low compared with...
...Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people did not keep the hospitals clean, and were not only starving but also suffering from malaria, dysentery, typhoid, exposure...