Word: typhoidal
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...Typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus...
...Athens and Peiraeus alone, between 1,700 and 2,000 men, women & children are dying each day. Not all starve to death. Cholera, typhus, typhoid and dysentery run like a licking brush fire through the weakened population. In mountain settlements and island villages people live a little better. They can find roots, herbs and mussels...
...Many maladies which occur as epidemics in the U.S. are endemic (permanent) in North China. Scarlet fever smolders constantly. Also common: typhoid, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, mumps, encephalitis, amebiasis (infection of the intestines by amebae...
...Although London has 8,000 miles of water mains, and every big main has been broken at some time or other, there has been no typhoid fever. Reason: large quantities of chlorine were immediately poured into the water. There has been, confessed Sir Wilson, a good deal of paratyphoid, a milder cousin of typhoid. This was traced to unclean bakeshops...
...When "typhoid" took Lyda's fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, insurance companies grew suspicious. She had been named beneficiary in all her husbands' policies. An examination of Meyer's stomach revealed a quantity of arsenic which, officials said, had probably been extracted from flypaper. Police went looking for Lyda. She had left town...