Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already, are likely to grow. Chloromycetin, announced in October 1947, is the first drug to work against typhoid fever (TIME, July 12), has proved effective against a steadily mounting list of diseases. Like aureomycin, it works against the group of diseases caused by the tiny organisms called rickettsiae, including typhus fever, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In a few cases it has worked against primary atypical ("virus") pneumonia...
Doctors had found no sure weapons against rickettsiae, * the tiny organisms that are smaller than bacteria but larger than most viruses. Aureomycin has been successful against many rickettsial and virus-like diseases: Q-fever, rickettsial pox, parrot fever, typhus fever, lympho-granuloma venereum (a venereal disease...
Despite Dr. Müller's surprise, DDT's place in preventive medicine is secure. It kills the mosquitoes that carry malaria, the flies that carry cholera, the lice that carry typhus, the fleas that carry the plague, the sand flies that carry kalaazar and other tropical diseases. Because of DDT, the tropics are becoming safer places to live; because of it typhus was no serious threat in World...
...bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able at last to raise their arms in surrender...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...