Word: typhus
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...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 1954 helped organize mass health campaigns that examined 400 million children in 88 countries, vaccinating 14 million against TB, treating 2,000,000 for yaws and other skin diseases, 9,000,000 against malaria and typhus...
...wealthiest families in Oregon. During the fourteen years following, he had graduated, spent months in jail, become a famous American war correspondent, written several books, taken a leading part in the Russian revolution, been elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, died of typhus in Russia, and been buried in the Kremlin's Red Square, as a hero and victim of the Russian revolution, as the Soviet Union's own Lafayette...
Even as the delegations were on the way to Yalta, Harry Hopkins reported to F.D.R. that Churchill "says that if we had spent ten years on research, we could not have found a worse place in the world than Yalta . . .He claims it is good for typhus and deadly lice, which thrive in those parts...
After serving as typhus consultant for the American and French zones in Germany, Snyder studied the role of micro-organisms and insects in public health at the Rockefeller Foundation...