Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
...Chicago Daily News's dependable Archibald T. Steele told what had happened to a Canadian. While Canadian Missionary Minnie Shipley lay dying of typhus in a Canadian mission hospital in Changteh (Hunan), demonstrators drove away Chinese employes of the hospital, isolated the building until the patient died...
...Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters of the country-a starving, typhus-ridden, spent and ruined country that lay, in "chaos and old night," from the steppes of the South to the black, reckless, European plain...
...bacteriological discoveries, largely directly applicable to preventive medicine. Among the achievements of the Institute are development of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guérin in 1921,* Emile Roux's and Alexandre Yersin's epoch-making work on the diphtheria bacillus, the typhus discoveries of Nobelman Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, the syphilis and encephalitis investigations of Constantin Levaditi...
...Named after Howard Taylor Ricketts of Findlay, Ohio and Stanislas Josel Mathias von Prowazek of Germany, independent workers on the virus. Both died of typhus fever during...