Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War I, the pale horse of pestilence galloped unchecked across Europe. How many people died from influenza, typhus, relapsing fever, malaria, typhoid and smallpox was never recorded, but flu alone killed an estimated 16,000,000. After World War II, the pale horse and his rider never really got started. Health authorities think it was partly a matter of luck. But Europe's, and Asia's, amazing escape from pestilence was also partly due to UNRRA. The story of its great work was told last week in a final bulletin by its health division...
Joining the staff are Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, formerly assistant director of the division of Medical Sciences of the Foundation, and Dr. John C. Snyder, a typhus fever expert. A master's and a doctor's degree in Hygiene now augment the courses of study open to research men in the School, declared Simmons...
...Public Health practice which the death of Dr. Edward G. Huber last July left vacant, held, just prior to his Rockefeller post, a deputy directorship of health in the European office of UNRRA. Snyder, to occupy a chair of Public Health Bacteriology, is noted in medical circles for his typhus-fever bug field investigations, which have carried him into remote corners of Mexico and Spain. Most recently he served the United States Army Typhus Commission on special assignments in the Middle East and Italy...
...Veils, No Skirts. In 1925, when A.U.B. introduced coeducation to the Lebanon, it did much to liberate Near Eastern women. Today unveiled Moslem girls mingle with men on the Mediterranean-edged campus, play tennis in shorts. Beirut's 1,000 graduate doctors now battle trachoma, typhus, malaria throughout the Near East. With 42 nationalities and 30 religious sects among its 2,463 students, A.U.B. is a "perpetual peace conference...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...