Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logistical planning, Hagerty left nothing to chance. Correspondents got a series of detailed memos advising just what shots to get (cholera, typhus, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and tetanus), how much luggage was allowed (66 lbs. in one piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi...
...Flourish. The son of a professor of philosophy of law at the University of Moscow, Kistiakowsky (pronounced Kiss-tuh-kof-ski), volunteered for the White Russian army during the Russian civil war, served in the infantry and tank corps. In his two years of service, he almost died of typhus, was caught up by the Red army tide. Escaping, he shot his horse, jumped into the Black Sea and swam to a rescue ship, later made his way to Germany, where he enrolled for study at the University of Berlin in 1921, got his doctorate four years later...
Pavan called his discovery Iridomyrmecin. By 1948 he had reduced it to its pure crystalline form, reported that Iridomyrmecin was deadly to many insects but harmless to man. It showed signs of being highly effective against the germs producing typhus, cholera and tuberculosis...
...they fought was a savage succession of small actions, of blundering encounters around bends in the jungle paths, of ambushes, surprise dawn attacks, endless forced marches. More than by Japanese bullets, the Marauders were brought low by mite-borne typhus, malaria, amoebic dysentery, fatigue and mental breakdowns. A battalion of Marauders, after seven weeks of marching through mountains, mud and water, was surrounded at Nhpum Ga; most of the survivors were red-eyed, hollow-cheeked, scarcely functioning by the time the siege was lifted...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...