Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hans Zinsser, professor of bacteriology at the Harvard Medical School, announced recently before the Society of American Bacteriologists the results of his experiments in typhus fever immunization. This report, coming from one of the leading scientists of the country indicates that the disease is now under control and is regarded as one of the most important contributions to medicine during the past year...
Zinsser stated in a paper read before about 200 members of the society in the sectional session of medical bacteriology, immunology, and comparative pathology that he had succeeded in isolating the "Rickettsia bodies of Mooser." the germ that takes millions of lives through the disease, typhus fever. He described experiments in which he had grown large numbers of the germ in pure culture, thereby producing a vaccine which has successfully immunized animals from the fever...
...John Reed, young Harvard poet, went to Russia in 1918 to join the Soviet Revolution, died of typhus, was given a state burial just outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow...
...Switzerland, four patrons of a hairdresser who kept a parrot in his shop died. In Geneva, the League of Nations' International Labor Office and the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene instructed Dr. Luigi Carozzi to make an investigation of typhus des perruches...