Word: typhoidal
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Today British and French doctors expect no epidemics of typhus, typhoid or cholera. Although there is no effective remedy for any of these diseases, all can be prevented by sanitary precautions. British soldiers are given inoculations against smallpox, tetanus, typhoid. But a titanic task faces the doctors of Germany and Central Europe...
Typhus and Typhoid. Carried by the louse and the rat-flea is Rickettsia prowazeki, a tiny organism which causes the dirty pink eruptions, burning fever and wild delirium of typhus fever. Prevention is simple: "no lice, no typhus." Also louse-borne is trench fever, a milder relative of typhus, which made its first appearance in World...
...them portable shower baths, ran farm motors to make steam for delousing Polish prisoners. Because of these thorough precautions, there has been no large-scale typhus epidemic in louse-ridden Poland, although the disease has flickered there, as it has in China, for many years. Warsaw has suffered from typhoid fever, a disease quite different from typhus, transmitted by typhoid bacilli which lodge in human excrement, food, water...
...have the Finns been plagued with typhus. Bi-weekly steam baths are their chief protection. Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service, who recently spent a month traveling through Finland, believes that there is no danger of a typhoid epidemic...
...matter where the 250,000 nomads wander, 100 nurses and doctors of the California State Board of Health pursue them in shiny station wagons, inoculate them against typhoid and smallpox, take X-ray pictures of their lungs, give them Wassermann tests and treatment for syphilis. In 1939, reported State Health Director Walter Murray Dickie last fortnight, there were no first-class epidemics among the "Okies," although there were 696 cases of smallpox, 280 of malaria. Strangely enough the incidence of venereal disease among the migrants is lower than among native Californians, and they have relatively little tuberculosis. Greatest plague: dietary...