Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla Eugene Dyer, typhus fever expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, of typhus fever, in Washington ; Edward Beale McLean in Paris...
...Typhus has persisted in cities along the U. S. Atlantic and Gulf coast despite sanitary precautions. It has at times erupted in communities without a lousy inhabitant. Perhaps some other bug transmits the disease, thought Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the Public Health Service. With associates he began the study of typhus ab initio...
First important new fact which the investigators found was that many Eastern coastal cases diagnosed as typhus were really Rocky Mountain spotted fever, never before suspected east of the Mississippi (TIME, March...
...louse carries a violent, epidemic form of the disease common in Europe. In the U. S. typhus is milder and endemic, travels in the rat flea...
...Dyer & associates, having determined that the flea as well as the louse is a carrier of typhus, concentrated on treatments. They pulverized infected fleas, rubbed the mash into scratches which they made on the bodies of monkeys and guinea pigs. When Dr. Dyer's staff let typhus fleas bite the vaccinated animals, typhus fever developed in only half the animals. Whereupon the investigators prepared a more potent vaccine with which they will inoculate themselves. They are confident that at last they have the treatment and preventive of typhus as it appears...