Word: typhoidal
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Bill Smith's father, a Honolulu policeman, is Irish-Hawaiian; his mother is English-Hawaiian. Bill did not start swimming in earnest until he was ten, when typhoid fever left him unable to walk. A coming Hawaiian swimming star, he saw the bombing of Pearl Harbor from his home porch, seven miles from the base...
Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...
...Angeles Health Department last week revealed that of its 21 latest typhoid cases eleven have been traced to carriers, ten of whom turned out to be grandmothers. One grandmother had caused four cases and one death in her family in 40 years...
City Health Officer George M. Uhl's explanation of the grandmother menace: "These grandmothers lived through a period in which typhoid fever was rampant in the U.S. It is known that 2% of typhoid cases became permanent carriers. Grandmothers are frequently active in the preparation of food in the home [known typhoid carriers must sign an agreement not to prepare food for outsiders...
...Rock. Soon after their marriage Nancy and Freddy went to Mexico City. Nancy came down with typhoid and trench mouth. Her parents flew to her side. Freddy came every day to the hospital, twice gave blood for a transfusion...